Tanabe Formation

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Tanabe Formation

Coherent formation
Pliocene - Pleistocene

Sedimentary facies: Fluvial, Lacustrine
Lithofacies: Sands, Clay

Thickness: 50 m or thicker
Upper limit: Top of Ss-Pnk

Tanabe Formation
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Zakuro Member
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Mizutori Member
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[ Lower ]

Osaka Group (Yawata, Kyoto pref.)
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Shodai Formation
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Seika Formation
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Tanabe Formation
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Tomigaoka Formation
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[ Lower ]

Second Setouchi Supergroup (Osaka pref. - Hyogo pref.)
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Osaka Group
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[ Lower ]

[ Upper ]
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Second Setouchi Supergroup
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First Setouchi Supergroup
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[ Lower ]

------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

Distribution: Yutoku, Otokoyama, Yawata city, Kyoto pref.; Tsuda, Hirakata city, Osaka 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.)