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Mitachi Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Middle I Terrace Deposits, lower Atsuta Formation

• Sedimentary facies: Middle Terrace Deposits
• Sedimentary facies (Bottom, Minor): Marine
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Bottom, Minor): Silt
• Sedimentary structures: Parallel stratification, Cross stratification

• Thickness: ca. 1 - 12 m

• Distribution: Kaizogawa river - Kamatanigawa river - Ikuwa town - Mitachi, Yokkaichi city, Mie pref.
• Fossils (Bottom, Clay): Shellfishes (Ostrea gigas)
• Fossils (Bottom, Clay, Diatoms): Achnanthes lanceolata var. elliptica, Cocconeis scutellum, Cyclotella stylorum, Diploneis smithii, Epithemia sp., Eunotia pectinalis var. minor, Eunotia robusta, Fragilaria construens var. venter, Grammotophora marina, Melosira sulcata, Navicula gastrum, Navicula lanceolata, Navicula lyra, Navicula marina, Navicula mutica, Navicula cf. placentula, Nitzschia cocconeiformis, Nitzschia grunulata, Nitzschia lanceolata, Nitzschia punctata, Opephora martyi, Pinnularia microstauron var. brebissonii, Rhabdonema arcuatum, Rhaphoneis surirella, Synedra pulchella var. lanceolata Synedra pulchella var. lanceolta f. consiricta, Thalassionema nitzschioides
• Fossils (Bottom, Clay, Pollen): Abies sp., Alnus sp., Aphananthe sp., Araliaceae, Artemisia sp., Betula sp., Carduoideae, Carpinus sp., Castanea sp., Celtis sp., Cichorioideae, Corylus sp., Cryptomeria sp., Cyclobalanopsis sp., Cyperaceae, Ericaceae, Eriocoulons p., Fagus sp., Fraxinus sp., Gramineae, Ilex sp., Juglans sp., Lagerstroemia sp., Lepidobalanus sp., Ligustrum sp., Lonicera sp., cf. Macleaya sp., Moraceae, Persicaria sp., Phellodendron sp., Picea sp., Pinus sp., Ranunculaceae, Rosaceae, Sapium sp., Sciadopitys sp., Symplocos sp., Thalictrum sp., Tsuga sp., Ulmus sp., cf. Viburnum sp., Zelkova sp.

• Yoshida (1984) Geology of the Yokkaichi District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 81p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)