Zenjoji Formation

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Zenjoji Formation Iida, 1980

Type locality: Zenjoji, Ujitawara city, Tsuzuki county, Kyoto prefecture
Coherent formation
Pliocene - Pleistocene
Correlation: Seta Gravels Member
Contemporaneous heterotopic facies: lower Nagaike Formation

Sedimentary facies: Fluvial, Lacustrine
Lithofacies (Upper): Gravels
Lithofacies (Upper, Minor): Sands
Lithofacies (Lower): Sands, Gravels

Thickness: ca. 57 - 70 m
Thickness (Upper): ca. 50 m
Thickness (Lower): ca. 7 m
Lower limit: Conformity (Otonoyama Formation), Unconformity (Tamba Belt)

Osaka Group (Uji, Kyoto pref.)
[ Upper ]
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Fukakusa Formation
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Nagaike Formation
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Zenjoji Formation
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Otonoyama Formation
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Tomigaoka Formation
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[ Lower ]

Second Setouchi Supergroup (Osaka pref. - Hyogo pref.)
[ Upper ]
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Osaka Group
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[ Lower ]

[ Upper ]
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Second Setouchi Supergroup
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First Setouchi Supergroup
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[ Lower ]

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

Distribution: Zenjoji - Iwayama - Tachikawa - Neta, Ujitawara city, Tsuzuki county, Kyoto pref.; Odawara, Oishi, Otsu city, 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.)