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Higher I Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pliocene

• Sedimentary facies: Terrestrial
• Lithofacies: Sands, Gravels, Mud

• Thickness: ca. 1 - 5 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Osaka Group, Fukakusa Formation, Kobiwako Group, Kusatsu Formation)

• Distribution: Uji hills, Kyoto pref.; Seta hills, Shiga pref.

• Wakita et al. (2013) Geology of the Kyoto-Tonambu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 124p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)