[ Top ] [ Japanese ]

Matsue Formation

• Coherent formation
• middle - late Miocene (12 - 11 Ma)
• Correlation: Takashibiyama Formation

• Sedimentary facies: Marine, Brackish
• Sedimentary facies: Inner bay, Shallow lakes
• Water temperature: Warm ocean current
• Lithofacies: Sandstone, Mudstone
• Lithofacies (Minor): Alkali basalt lava, Trachyte, Tuff, Lignite

• Thickness: ca. 350 - 550 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Wakurayama Dacite)
• Lower limit: Partial unconformity (Furue Formation)

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

• Distribution: Shimane peninsula - Izumo basin, Shimane pref.
• Fossils: Shrimps, Fish
• Fossils (Matsue fauna):

• Kano (2018) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.124, no.10, pp.781-803 DOI
• Sawada et al. (2013) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.119, no.4, pp.267-284 DOI
• Matsuura et al. (2013) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.119, no.4, pp.312-320 DOI
• Sato et al. (2011) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.117, no.8, pp.439-450 DOI
• Tanaka and Nomura (2009) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.115, no.6, pp.261-265 DOI
• Utada (2007) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.113, no.8, pp.438-453 DOI
• Kano and Yoshida (1985) Geology of the Sakaiminato District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 57p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)