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Ecchu Loam

• Loam
• middle Miocene

• Lithofacies: Loam (Silty volcanic ash soil)

• Thickness: 6 - 15 m or thicker
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Higher Fluvial Terrace Deposits)

• Distribution: Tsurugi Recreation Center, Kamiichi city, Nakaniikawa county, Toyama pref.
• Tephra: K-Tz

• Harayama et al. (2000) Geology of the Tateyama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 218p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)