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Lower Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene (60 - 20 ka)

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies: Main stream deposits
• Paleo-river system: Kinokawa river
• Lithofacies: Sands, Gravels

• Thickness: 3 m or thinner
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Sanbagawa Metamorphic Rocks)

• Distribution: Gojotaira, Katsuragi city, Ito county, Wakayama pref.; Shimomike - Kamimike, Wakayama city, Wakayama pref.; Nojiri - Nanayama - Higashide, Kainan city, Wakayama pref.; Marusu - Uenoyama, Kinokawa city, Wakayama pref.
• Tephra: AT

• 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.)