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Higher Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene (ca. 0.4 Ma)

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies: Gravels

• Thickness: ca. 2 - 5 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Ma 4, Ma 5, Ma 6, Ma 7)

• Distribution: Nishiyama hills - Otokoyama hills, Kyoto pref.; Hashirida shrine - Nagaoka-Tenmangu shrine, Nagaokakyo city, Kyoto pref.

• Miyachi et al. (2005) Geology of the Kyoto-Seinambu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 90p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)