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Higher III Terrace Deposits Yamauchi and Murakami, 2007

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

• Sedimentary facies: River terrace
• Lithofacies: Gravels

• Thickness: 10 m or thicker
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Misaki Basalt)

• Distribution: Yabigawa river - Nishida - Ikeda - Imazu - Takai, 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.)