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Higher Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• middle - late Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Silt
• Sedimentary structures: Imbricate structure

• Thickness: 1.8 - 10 m

• Distribution: Goma - Gomagawa river - Tawaragawa river - Katano - Higashitani, Hiyoshi town, Nantan city, Kyoto pref.; Shizuhara, Miyama town, Nantan city, Kyoto pref.; Keihokutorii town, Kyoto city, Kyoto pref.; Nagaike, Keihokuono town, Kyoto city, Kyoto pref.

• Kimura et al. (1994) Geology of the Yotsuya District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 52p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)