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Aoshima Facies
Offshore facies
- Boundary between Philippine sea plate and Eurasian plate
- Fore-arc basin sediments
- Coherent formation
- late Miocene
- Sedimentary facies: Marine
- Sedimentary facies: Offshore side of fan-delta
- Sedimentary facies: Sediment gravity flow, Slump, Deep-sea tsunami
- Depth of water: Deep sea, Continental slope
- Lithofacies: Interbedded sandstone and mudstone (Turbidite)
- Upper limit: Unconformity
- Lower limit: Unconformity
- Miyazaki Group (South Nichinan seashore)
- [ Upper ]
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- Aoshima Facies
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- [ Lower ]
------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown
- Distribution: Aoshima, Miyazaki city, Miyazaki pref.; Kinchaku island, Uchiumi, Miyazaki city, Miyazaki pref.; Cape Iruka, Ibii, Nichinan city, Miyazaki pref.; Cape Sehirasaki, Futo, Nichinan city, Miyazaki pref.
- Ishihara et al. (2014) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.120, Supplement, pp.41-62 DOI
- Takashimizu (2009) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.115, no.11, pp.559-577 DOI