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Middle Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene (Shimosueyoshi transgression)
• Correlation: Middle Terrace Deposits

• Sedimentary facies (Upper): Offshore
• Sedimentary facies (Lower): Beach, Sand dunes
• Lithofacies (Upper): Clay
• Lithofacies (Lower): Sands
• Sedimentary structures (Lower): Parallel stratification, Wavy stratification

• Thickness (Upper): 2.8 m
• Thickness (Lower): 2.1 m

• Distribution: Funagoshi, Nishinoshima city, Oki county, Shimane pref.

• Chiba et al. (2000) Geology of the Urago District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 74p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)