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Yamanouchi Member

Invalid synonym: Yamanouchi Formation

• Type locality: Gifu prefecture
• Coherent formation
• First Seto Inland Sea
• Sedimentary basin in island arc
• Miocene (18.3 - 17.0 Ma, Diatoms)
• Contemporaneous heterotopic facies: Hongo Formation
• Correlation: middle Maki Siltstone Member

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Tuffaceous siltstone, Sandstone

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

• Distribution: Gifu pref.

• Sasao et al. (2018) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.124, no.2, pp.141-150 DOI
• Sasao et al. (2011) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.117, no.8, pp.476-481 DOI