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Kawakami Formation

• Coherent formation
• Miocene
• Correlation: Katsuta Group

• Lithofacies: Sandstone, Shale
• Lithofacies (Minor): Coal
• Lithofacies (Bottom): Conglomerate

• Thickness: 50 - 60 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity

• Distribution: Hyogo pref.
• Fossils: Bivalves (Acesta yagensis), Gastropods

• Kambe and Hirokawa (1963) Sayo, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 29p. (in Japanese with English abstract 8p.)