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Higher I Terrace Deposits Yamauchi and Murakami, 2007

• Type locality: Daikoji temple, Okinoshima city, Oki county, Shimane prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Higher I Terrace Deposits (Izumo)

• Sedimentary facies: River terrace
• Lithofacies (Upper): Clay
• Lithofacies (Middle): Muddy gravels
• Lithofacies (Lower): Gravels

• Thickness (Upper): 1.5 m or thicker
• Thickness (Middle): ca. 2 m
• Thickness (Lower): 8 - 20 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Saigo Basalt)

• Distribution: Daikoji temple - Shimonishi, Okinoshima city, Oki county, Shimane pref.

• Yamauchi et al. (2009) Geology of the Saigo District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 118p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)