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Lower Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene, Last Glacial Period
• Correlation: Lower I Terrace Deposits (Hino), Lower II Terrace Deposits (Hino), Lower I Terrace Deposits (Kuwana), Lower I Terrace Deposits (Suzuka)

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Climate: Cold (Plants)
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sands

• Thickness: 5 - 20 m

• Distribution: Aito - Koto - Yokaichi - Namazue - Kozuhata, Higashiomi city, Shiga pref.; Misono - Fudanotsuji, Ritto city, Shiga pref.; Okubo, Hino city, Gamo county, Shiga pref.

• Yoshida et al. (2003) Geology of the Omi-Hachiman District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 72p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)