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Middle I Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Middle I Terrace Deposits (Hino), Toriihira Terrace Deposits, Mitachi Terrace Deposits, Umamichi Terrace Deposits

• Sedimentary facies (Minor): Marine
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Sedimentary structures: Cross stratification

• Thickness: a few - 10 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Tokai Group)

• Distribution: Ikuwa town - Iwaruga town - Asakegawa river, Yokkaichi city, Mie pref.; Ishigure, Daian town, Inabe city, Mie pref.; Ageki - Inabegawa river, Hokusei town, Inabe city, Mie pref.; Uzunawa, Asahi city, Mie county, Mie pref.; Hijiegawa river - Tadogawa river, Kuwana city, Mie pref.
• Fossils (Diatoms): Aulacosira spp., Biddulphia sp., Cocconeis placentula var. euglypta, Coscinodiscus spp., Cyclotella striata, Cyclotella stylorum, Cymbella sinuata, Denticulopsis Lauta, Dimerogramma fulvum, Dimerogramma minor, Diploneis interrupta, Diploneis ovalis, Eunotia pectinalis var. minor, Fragilaria construens, Gomphonema sphaerophorum, Grammatophora macilenta, Hantzschia amphioxys, Navicula contenta, Navicula lya, Navicula pusilla, Navicula viridula, Nitzchia cocconeiformis, Nitzschia granulata, Opephora martyi, Paralia sulcata, Pinnularia ignobilis, Plagiogramma sp., Stephanodiscus carconensis, Terpsionoe americana, Thalassionema nitzschioides, Thalassiosira sp., Trachyneis aspera
• Fossils (Pollen): Abies sp., Acer sp., Alnus sp., Aphananthe sp., Artemisia sp., Buxus sp., Carpinus sp., Celtis sp., Chenopodiaceae, Cryptomeria sp., Cyperaceae, cf. Distylium sp., Ericaceae, Fagus crenata, Fagus japonica, Fraxinus p., Gramimeae, Ilex sp., Juglans sp., Langerstroemia sp., Ligustrum sp., Liquidambar sp., Liquidambar sp., Loniceras p., Myrica sp., cf. Nymphoides sp., Orixa sp., Ostrya sp., Parthenocissus sp., cf. Phellodendron sp., Picea sp., Pinus (Diploxylon) sp., Pinus sp., Polygonum sp., Pterocarya sp., Quercus (Cyclobalanopsis) sp., Quercus (Lepidobalanus) sp., Salix sp., Sapium sp., Sciadopitys sp., Styrax sp., Thalictrum sp., Tsuga sp., Typha sp., Ulmus sp., Zelkova sp.

• 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.)