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Ohtaniike Formation Araki, 1953

• Type locality: Dohaku hills, Suzuka city, Mie prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Silt, Sands

• Thickness: ca. 5 - 15 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Tokai Group)

• Distribution: Dohaku hills - Hachino town - Lake Naraike - Suzuka circuit - Kodai - Lake Fukadaniike, Suzuka city, Shiga pref.; Sugauchi town, Kameyama city, Mie pref.

• Yoshida (1984) Geology of the Yokkaichi District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 81p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)
• Miyamura et al. (1981) Geology of the Kameyama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 128p. (in Japanese with English abstract 9p.)