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Higher II Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pliocene

• Sedimentary facies: Terrestrial
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sands, Mud
• Sedimentary structures: Upward-fining, Cross stratification, Imbricate structure

• Thickness: ca. 10 - 50 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity

• Distribution: Obaku hills - Amagase dam - Ujigawa river, Uji city, Kyoto 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.)