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Middle Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene (ca. 130 - 80 ka, Last Glacial Period)

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies: Sands, Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Silt

• Thickness: 2 - 12 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Shobudani Group, Sanbagawa Metamorphic Rocks)

• Distribution: Inokuchi - Kunishidai - Uenoyama - Soeda - Moto - Yuri - Nagahara - Inaba - Maeda - Nishiwaki, Kinokawa city, Wakayama pref.; Moko, Kainan city, Wakayama pref.; Kanaya, Wakayama city, 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.)