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Yagoto Formation Matsuzawa and Kato, 1954

• Type locality: Yagoto, Showa ward, Nagoya city, Aichi prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Higher terrace depositsl
• early - middle Pleistocene
• Correlation: Yatomi Formation, Kagiya Formation, Miyoshi Formation

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies: Sands, Silt
• Sedimentary structures: Cross stratification
• Paleocurrent: to West - Southwest

• Thickness: several - 50 m or thicker
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Karayama Formation, Yadagawa Formation)

• Distribution: Yagoto, Showa ward, Nagoya city, Aichi pref.; Ryusenji - Higashiyama - Naruko town, Nagoya city, Aichi pref.; Narumi town, Midori ward, Nagoya city, Aichi pref.

• Nakashima et al. (2021) Geology of the Toyota District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 91p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)
• Sakamoto et al. (1986) Geology of the Nagoya-Nambu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 55p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)
• Sakamoto et al. (1984) Geology of the Nagoya-Hokubu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 64p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)