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Kumano Group

• Type locality: Mie prefecture
• Coherent formation
• early - middle Miocene
• Contemporaneous heterotopic facies: Interfingered (Shionomisaki Ingeous Complex)
• Correlation (Lower): Owase Group
• Intruded by: Kozagawa Arculate Dyke

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Depth of water: Shallow - Bathyal
• Lithofacies: Conglomerate, Sandstone, Mudstone

• Thickness: ca. 4,000 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Konogi Rhyolite, Owase-Shirahama Pyroclastic Rocks)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Otonashigawa Group)

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

• Distribution: Kumano city, Mie pref. - Kushimoto city, Higashimuro county, Wakayama pref.

• Bessho and Nakaya (2011) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.117, no.8, pp.423-438 DOI
• Nakajima et al. (2010) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.116, no.7, pp.374-387 DOI
• Kawakami and Hoshi (2007) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.113, no.7, pp.296-309 DOI