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Higher II Terrace Deposits

Invalid synonym: Rengeji Formation, Karegawa Gravels

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Higher Terrace Deposits (Mount Nunobikiyama), Hyakusaiji I Terrace Deposits

• Lithofacies: Gravels

• Thickness: a few - 10 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Komeno Formation, Chikarao Formation, Kuragari Formation)

• Distribution: Karegawa river - Onakashinden, Kuwana city, Mie pref.; Minaminakatsuhara - Fumoto, Hokusei town, Inabe city, Mie pref.; Kuragari, Inabe town, Inabe city, Mie pref.

• Yoshida et al. (1991) Geology of the Kuwana District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 154p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)