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Sasaotoge Formation Ikebe, 1934

• Type locality: Midorigaoka, Senooto, Tsuchiyama town, Koka city, Shiga prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Flood plain deposit of alluvial fan
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Silt, Clay

• Thickness: several - ca. 15 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Karatogawa Member, Mino Belt)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Kaigake Member)

• Distribution: Midorigaoka - Sasaotoge pass, 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.)