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Kawanishi Clay

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Ma 1

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Sedimentary facies: Inner bay
• Lithofacies: Clay
• Sedimentary structures: Parallel stratification

• Host: Lower part of Osaka Group
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Maiko Shell Bed)

• Distribution: Kariguchidai, Kobe city, Hyogo pref.; Matsugaoka - Lake Nonoike - Higashifutami, Akashi city, Hyogo pref.
• Fossils: Shellfishes, Dinoflagellates
• Fossils (Plants): Ilex cornuta, Lepidobalanus sp., Metasequoia sp., Picea koribai, Pterocarya paliurus, Pterocarya stenoptera, Zelkova sp.,
• Fossils (Diatoms): Actinoptychus undulatus, Cyclotella striata, Diploneis smithii, Melosira sulcata, Nitzchia undulata, Surillera sp., Tharasiosira sp.

• Huzita and Maeda (1984) Geology of the Suma District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 101p. (in Japanese with English abstract 7p.)