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Older Higher Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Higher II Terrace Deposits

• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Silt
• Sedimentary structures: Imbricate structure, Parallel stratification, Cross stratification, Graded bedding
• Paleocurrent: from North-northwest to South-southeast

• Thickness: 3 - 4 m

• Distribution: Senrigaoka - Ueno - Nakanokawa river, Kawage town, Tsu city, Tsu city, Mie pref.

• Yoshida (1987) Geology of the Tsu-Tobu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 72p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)