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Higher Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies: Sands, Gravels

• Thickness: 2 - 6 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Toge Formation)

• Distribution: Tsukatsuki - Kishiono - Yuri, Kinokawa city, Wakayama pref.; Higashishibuta - Mount Nyudoyama, Katsuragi city, Ito county, Wakayama pref.

• Makimoto et al. (2004) Geology of the Kokawa District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 89p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)