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Higher Terrace Deposits

Invalid synonym: Shimokoga Gravel Bed

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sands, Silt
• Sedimentary structures (Minor): Cross stratification

• Thickness: 20 - 70 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Shiratsuchidani Member, Akatsukikaido Member)

• Distribution: Kitagawa river - Asogawa river - Mount Dotateyama - Shimokoga - Mukugawa, Takashima city, Shiga pref.; Otomo, Imazu town, Takashima city, Shiga pref.
• Fossils (Plants): Picea bicolor (Cones)

• Nakae et al. (2001) Geology of the Chikubu Shima District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 71p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)
• Nakae and Yoshioka (1998) Geology of the Kumagawa District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 71p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)
• Ishida et al. (1984) Geology of the Hikone-Seibu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 121p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)