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Narazaka Gravel Bed

Synonym: Higher Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies: Alluvial fan deposit
• Sedimentary facies: Higher terrace deposits
• Lithofacies: Gravels, Sands
• Paleocurrent: from East to West

• Thickness: ca. 4 - 8 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Osaka Group)

• Distribution: Narazaka town - Misasagi town - Oshikuma town, 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.)