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Tanabe Formation (Mitamura et al., 1992) Ozaki et al., 2000

• Type locality: Susutanigawa river, Higashihata, Seika city, Soraku county, Kyoto prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Pliocene - Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial, Lacustrine
• Lithofacies: Sands, Clay

• Thickness: ca. 50 - 180 m or thicker
• Upper limit: Top of the interbedded sands and mud-dominant horizon around Ss-Pnk
• Lower limit: Bottom of the conglomerate bed around Fugenji Tephra

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

• Distribution: Yutoku, Otokoyama, Yawata city, Kyoto pref.; Tsuda, Hirakata city, Osaka pref.; Susutanigawa river, Higashihata, Seika city, Soraku county, 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.)
• Miyachi et al. (2001) Geology of the Osaka-Tohokubu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 130p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)
• Ozaki et al. (2000) Geology of the Nara District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 162p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)