Owase Group

Type locality: Owase city, Mie prefecture
Coherent formation
Miocene
Correlation: lower Kumano Group

Sedimentary facies: Marine
Lithofacies: Mudstone, Interbedded sandstone and mudstone, Conglomerate

Thickness: ca. 370 m or thinner
Upper limit: Unconformity (Owase-Shirahama Pyroclastic Rocks)
Lower limit: Unconformity (Shimanto Belt)

Owase Group
[ Upper ]
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Semotohana Formation
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Ikunoura Formation
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Osone Formation
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[ Lower ]

------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

Distribution: Owase city, Mie pref.

Kawakami and Hoshi (2007) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.113, no.7, pp.296-309 DOI