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Lower Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies: Gravels, Sands
• Lithofacies (Minor): Silt
• Sedimentary structures: Imbricate structure
• Paleocurrent: from South to North

• Thickness: 4 - 6.5 m or thicker
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Sennan Formation, Izumi Group)

• Distribution: Onosatogawa river, Sennan city, Osaka pref.; Bangawa river, Misaki city, Sennan county, Osaka pref.; Tottori - Hakonoura - Ozaki town - Hakotsukuri - Minenojizo, Hannan city, Osaka pref.

• Miyata et al. (1993) Geology of the Wakayama and Ozaki District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 68p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)