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Mizunami Group

Mizunami Group in sensu lato includes Iwamura Group and Kani Group.

• Type locality: Mizunami city, Gifu prefecture
• Coherent formation
• First Seto Inland Sea
• Sedimentary basin in island arc
• Miocene

• Sedimentary facies (Upper): Marine
• Sedimentary facies (Middle): Marine
• Sedimentary facies (Lower): Terrestrial

• Upper limit (Aichi pref.): Unconformity (Seto Porcelain Clay Formation)
• Upper limit (Gifu pref.): Unconformity (Toki Sand and Gravel Formation)

------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

• Distribution: Nagoya region, Aichi pref.; Mizunami city - Toki city, Gifu pref.

• Hatano and Yoshida (2018) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.124, no.3, pp.191-205 DOI
• Sasao et al. (2011) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.117, no.8, pp.476-481 DOI
• 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.)