Akashi Formation

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Akashi Formation

Type locality: Akashi seashore, Akashi city, Hyogo prefecture
Coherent formation
Pleistocene

Sedimentary facies: Fluvial, Lacustrine
Lithofacies:

Upper limit: Unconformity (Nishiyagi Formation, Miki Formation)

Akashi Formation
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Takatsukayama Marine Clay Bed
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Osaka Group (Kobe, Hyogo pref.)
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Egeyama Formation
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Akashi Formation
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Second Setouchi Supergroup (Osaka pref. - Hyogo pref.)
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Osaka Group
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Second Setouchi Supergroup
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First Setouchi Supergroup
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------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

Distribution: Akashi seashore, Akashi city, Hyogo pref.; Takatsukayama, Tarumi ward, Kobe city, Hyogo pref.; Mount Shibureyama - Kasamatsutoge pass, Kita ward, Kobe city, Hyogo pref.
Fossils: Stegodon Akashiensis

Huzita and Kasama (1983) Geology of the Kobe District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 115p. (in Japanese with English abstract 8p.)