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Tsugawagawa Conglomerate

• Type locality: Tsugawagawa river, Tsuyama city, Okayama prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Mesozoic

• Sedimentary facies: Basal conglomerate
• Lithofacies: Conglomerate

• Thickness: 0 - 40 m
• Upper limit: Conformity (Nagisan Andesites)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Sangun Metamorphic Rocks)

• Distribution: Tsugawagawa river - Mount Yahazuyama, Tsuyama city, Okayama pref.

• Yamada (1966) Chizu, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 69p. (in Japanese with English abstract 11p.)