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Middle Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies: Fillstrath terrace
• Lithofacies: Gravels, Sands
• Lithofacies (Minor): Clay

• Thickness: 1 - 7 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Higher Terrace Depsoits)

• Distribution: Yuragawa river, Ayabe city - Fukuchiyama city, Kyoto pref.; Hazegawa river - Takedagawa river - Mukaino - Ichidera - Osadano, Fukuchiyama city, Kyoto pref.; Takayagawa river - Jisse - Mukaiyama, Kyotanba city, Funai county, Kyoto pref.; Higashigoma - Harakawa river - Atarashi, Hiyoshi town, Nangan city, Kyoto pref.; Hijitani - Kayano - Takano, Miyama town, Nantan city, Kyoto pref.
• Tephra: DNP, DHP

• Kimura et al. (1994) Geology of the Yotsuya District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 52p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)
• Kurimoto and Makimoto (1990) Geology of the Fukuchiyama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 97p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)
• Kimura et al. (1989) Geology of the Ayabe District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 104p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)