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Higher Terrace Deposits

• Type locality: Kokadaira, Koka city, Shiga prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Terrestrial
• Lithofacies (Upper): Gravels, Sands, Silt
• Lithofacies (Lower): Gravels

• Thickness: 6 - 10 m
• Thickness (Upper): 2 - 3 m
• Thickness (Lower): 4 - 7 m

• Distribution: Tsugegawa river, Iga city, Mie pref.; Kokadaira, Koka city, Shiga pref.

• Kawabe et al. (1996) Geology of the Ueno District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 99p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)