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Yono Member

• Type locality (Upper): Yono - Aobadai, Iga city, Mie prefecture
• Type locality (Lower): Moridera - Kajiya, Iga city, Mie prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Pliocene
• Correlation (Upper): Iga Member

• Sedimentary facies: Terrestrial
• Lithofacies (Upper): Gravel-bearing sands, Sandy silt, Sandy clay, Sands
• Lithofacies (Lower): Gravel-bearing sandy clay, Gravel-bearing clayey sands, Sands
• Lithofacies (Lower, Minor): Lignite
• Sedimentary structures: Cross stratification, Parallel stratification

• Thickness: 10 - 160 m
• Upper limit: Conformity, partly Unconformity (Ishiuchi Member)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Younger Ryoke Granitoids)

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

• Distribution: Yono - Aobadai - Moridera - Kajiya, Iga city, Mie pref.
• Fossils: Plant roots
• Tephra: Kamigori, Nishide, Yono I, Yono II, Yono III, Ida, Aobadai I, Aobadai II, Aobadai III, Kaminosho I, Kaminosho II

• 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.)