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Lower Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies: Alluvial fan deposit
• Paleo-river system: Notogawa river
• Lithofacies: Gravels, Sands
• Lithofacies (Upper, Minor): Clay, Silt

• Thickness: ca. 4 - 9 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Osaka Group)

• Distribution: Notogawa river, Nara city, Nara pref.

• Ozaki et al. (2000) Geology of the Nara District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 162p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)