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Miyazaki Facies
Coarse sediments facies
- Boundary between Philippine sea plate and Eurasian plate
- Fore-arc basin sediments
- Coherent formation
- late Miocene - early Pliocene
- Sedimentary facies: Marine, Fluvial
- Sedimentary facies: Fan-delta on a continental slope having a narrow continental shelf, Submarine canyon fill
- Sedimentary facies: Sediment gravity flow
- Depth of water: Shallow - deep sea, Continental shelf, Continental slope
- Lithofacies: Interbedded sandstone and mudstone
- Miyazaki Facies
- [ Upper ]
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- Ikime Formation
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- Kamurano Formation
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- Aya Formation
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- Tano Formation
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- [ Lower ]
- Miyazaki Group (Middle Nichinan seashore)
- [ Upper ]
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- Miyazaki Facies
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- [ Lower ]
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- Distribution: central part of Nichinan seashore, 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