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Lower II Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene (33,200, 20,000 yBP, ¹⁴)
• Correlation: Lower Terrace Deposits (Hino), Lower I Terrace Deposits (Kuwana)

• Climate: Cool
• Lithofacies: Gravels

• Thickness: ca. 1 - 8 m

• Distribution: Yokaichi hills - Kozuhata, Higashiomi city, Shiga pref.; Hino hills, Hino city, Gamo county, Shiga pref.
• Fossils (Plants): Abies homolepis, Alnus hirsuta, Chamaecyparis obtusa, Fagus crenata, Hamamelis japonica, Pinus koraiensis, Pinus parviflora, Quercus cripula, Thuja standishi, Tsuga sieboldii
• Tephra: Heianjingu Tephra

• Harayama et al. (1989) Geology of the Gozaishoyama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 145p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)