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Yanashi Formation Makinouchi, 1980

• Type locality: Kanikawa bridge, Toyooka, Minamichita city, Chita county, Aichi prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Middle terrace deposits
• Lithofacies (Top): Gravels
• Lithofacies: Gravels, Sandy silt

• Thickness (Top): 1 m
• Thickness: 3 - 4 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Toyooka Formation)

• Distribution: Toyooka - Cape Umidahana - Cape Tobigasaki, Minamichita city, Chita county, Aichi pref.

• Kondo and Kimura (1987) Geology of the Morozaki District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 93p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)