Lower Member

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Lower Member Miyamura et al., 1981

Type locality: Higashijo, Ogawa town, Kameyama city, Mie prefecture
Coherent formation
Pliocene - Pleistocene

Sedimentary facies: Sandy channel/Sand bar deposit, Floodplain/marsh deposit, Flooding flow/natural levee deposit, Crevasse splay/Crevasse channel deposit
Lithofacies: Mudstone-dominant interbedded mudstone, siltstone, and sandstone
Lithofacies (Minor): Gravels

Thickness: ca. 200 m
Upper limit: Bottom of Nomura Tephra
Upper limit: Conformity (Middle Member)
Lower limit: Top of Kamishiraki Tephra
Lower limit: Transitional (Kusuhara Formation)

Kameyama Formation
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Upper Member
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Middle Member
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Lower Member
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Tokai Group (Kameyama, Mie pref.)
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Sakuramura Formation
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Kameyama Formation
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Kusuhara Formation
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Saigyodani Formation
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Oyama Formation
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Matsusaka Formation
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Second Setouchi Supergroup (Mie pref. - Aichi pref.)
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Tokai Group
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Second Setouchi Supergroup
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First Setouchi Supergroup
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------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

Distribution: Higashijo - Warabi - Mukugawa river, Kameyama city, Mie pref.
Fossils: Stegodon cf. elephantoides

Miyamura et al. (1981) Geology of the Kameyama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 128p. (in Japanese with English abstract 9p.)