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Older Middle Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Middle I Terrace Deposits, , Kambe Terrace Deposits
• Correlation (Lower): lower Atsuta Formation

• Sedimentary facies (Lower): Marine, Brackish
• Lithofacies (Upper): Gravels
• Lithofacies (Upper, Minor): Silt, Sands
• Lithofacies (Lower): Silt
• Lithofacies (Lower, Minor): Sands, Gravels
• Sedimentary structures: Parallel stratification

• Thickness: 2 - 8 m
• Thickness (Upper): 2 - 5 m
• Thickness (Lower): 8 m

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

• Distribution: Nakanokawa river - Shitomogawa river - Hisai - Aotani town, Tsu city, Mie pref.; Ino town, Suzuka city, Mie pref.
• Fossils (Shellfishes): Anadara inflata
• Fossils (Plants): Melia azedarach var. japonica, Sapium sebiferum var. pleistoceaca, Styrax japonica

• 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.)