Higashino Member

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Higashino Member Yoshida, 1978

Type locality: Uguigawa river, Ayukawa, Tsuchiyama town, Koka city, Shiga prefecture
Coherent formation
First Seto Inland Sea
Sedimentary basin in island arc
Miocene

Sedimentary facies: Marine
Lithofacies: Interbedded sandstone and mudstone
Lithofacies (Minor): Tuffaceous mudstone, Tuff

Thickness: ca. 60 m
Upper limit: Conformity (Akebihara Member)
Lower limit: Transitional (Kaminohira Member, Ayukawa Member)

Kurokawa Formation
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Akebihara Member
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Higashino Member
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Ayukawa Member
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Kaminohira Member
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Ayugawa Group
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Marutadani Formation
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Kurokawa Formation
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Tsuchiyama Formation
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[ Lower ]

First Setouchi Supergroup (Tsuchiyama, Shiga pref.)
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Ayugawa Group
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[ Lower ]

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

Distribution: Ayukawa - Uguigawa river - Kaminohira, Tsuchiyama town, Koka city, Shiga pref.

Miyamura et al. (1981) Geology of the Kameyama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 128p. (in Japanese with English abstract 9p.)