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Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Umezako Formation
• Contemporaneous heterotopic facies: Mononobe Formation

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Clay

• Distribution: Yuragawa river, Ayabe city - Fukuchiyama city, Kyoto pref.; Mikkaichi, Ayabe city, Kyoto pref.

• Igi and Kuroda (1965) Oeyama, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 81p. (in Japanese with English abstract 12p.)
• Igi et al. (1961) Maizuru, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 49p. (in Japanese with English abstract 9p.)