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Tanabe Group

• Type locality: Tanabe city, Wakayama prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Miocene

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Depth of water: Shallow - Bathyal
• Lithofacies: Mudstone, Interbedded sandstone and mudstone, Sandstone, Conglomerate

• Thickness: 1,100 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Toshima Formation)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Otonashigawa Group)

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

• Distribution: Tanabe city, Wakayama pref.; Cape Ichie - Migusa, Ichie, Hioki, Shirahama city, Nishimuro county, Wakayama pref.

• Bessho and Nakaya (2011) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.117, no.8, pp.423-438 DOI
• Miyata et al., (2009) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.115, no.9, pp.470-482 DOI