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Ueno Formation

• Coherent formation
• Pliocene (? - 3.6 Ma)

• Sedimentary facies: Terrestrial

• Thickness: 30 - 40 m or thicker
• Upper limit: Conformity, partly Unconformity (Iga Formation)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Cretaceous granitoids)

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

• Distribution: Nabari city, Mie pref.; Hananoki hills - Ueno - Oyamada, Iga city, Mie pref.
• Fossils: Stegodon miensis, Metasequoia sp.
• Tepha: Kamigori Tuff Bed, Nshide Tuff Bed, Yono I Tuff Bed, Yono II Tuff Bed, Ida Tuff Bed, Kaminosho I Tuff Bed, Kaminosho II Tuff Bed, Shibutagawa Tuff Bed (Hojiro A Tuff Bed, Shirasawanoike Tuff Bed), Ichibe Tuff Bed (Hasuike Tuff Bed), Inagu Tuff Bed, Shijukucho Tuff Bed, Shijukucho II Tuff Bed (Hattorigawa II Tuff Bed), Midoro Tuff Bed, Kashikimura Tuff Bed, Hattorigawa I Tuff Bed (Higashitani Tuff Bed), Hirata Tuff Bed, Hojiro-Kita Tuff Bed, Nakamura Tuff Bed, Hojiro II Tuff Bed (Znp-Ohta), Takayama Tuff Bed

• Satoguchi (2015) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.121, no.4, pp.125-139, DOI
• Satoguchi et al. (2012) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.118, Supplement, pp.70-78 DOI
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• Kimura et al. (1998) Geology of the Kyoto-Tohokubu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 89p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)