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Higher and Middle Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• middle - late Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies: Strath terrace
• Lithofacies: Gravels

• Thickness: Several m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Lower Terrace Deposits)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Saita Formation, Koda Formation, Yakeo Formation, Takase Formation, Izumi Group, Kan-onji Plutonic Rocks)

• Distribution: Saitagawa river - Kunitagawa river, Kagawa pref.; Wada - Onohara - Uchinono, Kanonji city, Kagawa pref.

• Noda et al. (2017) Geology of the Kan-onji District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 96p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)