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Lowest Terrace Deposits

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

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies: Gravels, Sands

• Thickness: ca. 1 m

• Distribution: Misono, Ritto city, Shiga pref.; Midori town, Omihachiman city, 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.)