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Higher Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Terrestrial
• Lithofacies: Gravels, Sands, Silt

• Thickness: Several - 30 m

• Distribution: Obatagawa river - Nabarigawa river - Murogawa river, Nabari city, Mie pref.; Mount Oborayama, Misugi town, Tsu city, Mie pref.; Mount Kurosoyama - Mount Kogoyama, Soni city, Uda county, Nara pref.; Mount Saburogadake, Uda city, Nara pref.
• Fossils (Insects): Donacia sp., Enochrus japonicus, Gaurodytes optatus, Plateumaris sericea, Pristodactyla arcuatiollis, Pterostichus sp., Trechus ephippiatus
• Fossils (Plants): Acer sp., Actinostemma lobatum?, Betula sp., Carex sp., Nuphar sp., Picea cf. bicolo, Polygonum sp.

• Nishioka et al. (1998) Geology of the Nabari District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 72p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)