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Kakamigahara Terrace Deposits

Invalid synonym: Kakamigahara Formation

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene (older than 90 - 60 ka)
• Correlation: upper Atsuta Formation

• Lithofacies: Gravels, Sands, Pumiceous sandstone
• Sedimentary structures: Graded bedding, Parallel stratification, Trough cross-stratification

• Thickness: 2 m or thicker
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Kisogawa Mudflow Deposit)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Nobi Second Gravel Bed)

• Distribution: Kamono town, Minokamo city, Gifu pref.; Hanyu, Tomika city, Kamo county, Gifu pref.; Ohari, Sakhogi city, Kamo county, Gifu pref.; Akutami - Iwata, Gifu city, Gifu pref.; Miyashiro town - Hamami town - Mitsui town - Mitsuike town, Kakamigahara city, Gifu pref.; Higashitawara, Seki city, Gifu pref.
• Tephra: On-Pm1, On-Pm3

• Yoshida and Wakita (1999) Geology of the Gifu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 71p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)