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Sakuramura Formation (Matsui, 1943) Yoshida, 1984

• Type locality (Old): Chishaku town, Yokkaichi city, Mie prefecture
• Type locality (New): Yagogawa river, Yokkaichi city, Mie prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Contemporaneous heterotopic facies: Tomari Formation

• Lithofacies: Sands-dominant interbedded sands, clay and silt
• Lithofacies (Minor): Gravels
• Sedimentary structures: Cross stratification

• Thickness: ca. 110 - 280 m
• Upper limit: Unknown
• Lower limit: Top of Nagasawa Tephra
• Lower limit: Transitional (Upper Member, Hachioji Formation)

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

• Distribution: Yagogawa river - Chishaku town - Ikuwa town - Bozuo - Sakuramachi - Uchiyama town - Yamada town - Shikama town, Yokkaichi city, Mie pref.; Suzuka city, Mie pref.; Onbagawa river - Yashimagawa river, Kameyama city, Mie pref.; Shukuno - Kandanigawa river - Setogawa river - Nishikomono, Komono city, Mie county, Mie pref.
• Fossils (Plants): Acer sp., Cunninghamia sp., Fagus hayatae, Fagus japonica, Juglans megacinerea, Metasequoia disticha, Metasequoia japonica, Paliurus nipponicus, Quercus dentata, Quercus variabilis, Rosa sp., Sarex sp.
• Tephra: Shukuno Tephra, Koyashiro Tephra, Kawashima I, Kawashima II

• Hoshi et al. (2013) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.119, no.10, pp.679-692 DOI
• 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.)
• Harayama et al. (1989) Geology of the Gozaishoyama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 145p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)
• 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.)