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Middle Fluvial Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pliocene

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

• Thickness: 2 - 12 m

• Distribution: Yasugawa river - Somagawa river - Kurabegawa river - Kojosan, Minakuchi town, Koka city, Shiga pref.; Yamazoe, Shigaraki town, Koka city, Shiga pref.; Nunobikiyama, Tsuchiyama town, Koka city, Shiga pref.; Higashitera, Ishibe town, Konan city, Shiga pref.
• Tephra: Aso-4

• Nakano et al. (2003) Geology of the Minakuchi District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 83p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)