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Takatsukayama Marine Clay Member Ueji, 1938

• Coherent formation
• middle Pleistocene (0.49 Ma, FT)

• Sedimentary facies (Upper): Marine
• Sedimentary facies (Lower): Freshwater
• Sedimentary facies (Upper): Inner bay
• Sedimentary facies: Transgression deposit
• Water temperature: Warm ocean current
• Lithofacies: Clay

• Thickness: ca. 7 m

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

• Distribution: Takatsukayama, Tarumi ward, Kobe city, Hyogo pref.
• Fossils: Sharks (Carcharhinus gangeticus), Corals (Oulangia stockesiana miltoni), Solitary corals
• Fossils (Shellfishes): Anomia lischkei, Cardium (Fulvia) muticum, Chlamys harimense, Chlamys yagurai, Corbicula nipponensis, Dentalium octangulatum, Dosinia japonica, Erodona amurensis, Fulvia mutica, Limea orientalis, Lithophaga curta, Macoma incongrua, Mactra veneriformis, Monia umbonata, Ostrea (Crassostrea) gigas, Ostrea (Crassostrea) pes-tigris, Ostrea (Ostrea) denselamellosa, Pitar japonica, Potamocorbula amurensis takatsukayamaensis, Promantellum hirasei, Rapana thomasiana, Semele zebuensis, Trapezium (Neotrapezium) liratum, Volachlamys yagurai
• Fossils (Pollen): Abies sp., Alnus sp., Cryptomeria sp., Fagus sp., Picea sp., Pinus sp., Quercus (Cyclobalanopsis) sp., Sciadopitys sp., Tsuga sp., Ulmus sp., Zelkova sp.
• Tephra: Hashimoto

• 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.)
• 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.)