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Yadawara Conglomerate Member (Shimakura, 1963) Ozaki et al., 2000

• Type locality: Hachibusetoge pass - Yadawara, Yadawara town, Nara city, Nara prefecture
• Coherent formation
• middle Miocene
• Correlation: Onomi Conglomerate Member

• Lithofacies: Conglomerate

• Thickness: 10 - 100 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Sekibutsu Tuff Member)
• Lower limit: Conformity (Onigatsuji Mudstone and Sandstone Member, Higashiyama Conglomerate Member)

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

• Distribution: Maitani town - Yadawara town, Nara city, Nara pref.

• Sato et al. (2012) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.118, Supplement, pp.53-69 DOI
• Nishioka et al. (2001) Geology of the Sakurai District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 141p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)
• 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.)