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Musashino Loam Kanto Loam Research Group, 1956

• Type locality: Okamoto, Setagaya ward, Tokyo
• Loam
• Pleistocene (70 - 40 ka, MIS 4 - 3)
• Correlation: Younger Loam

• Lithofacies: brown Loam

• Thickness: ca. 1 - 5 m
• Upper limit: Top of the brown-color crack band 3 - 4 m below the ground surface
• Upper limit: Conformity (Tachikawa Loam), Unconformity (Shimokawai Peat Bed)
• Lower limit: Top of the chocolate-color crack band 1 m below Hk-TP
• Lower limit: Conformity (Shimosueyoshi Loam, Musashino Terrace Deposit, Nakadai Formation, Ohorigawa Terrace Deposits, Sagamihara Terrace Deposit, Dai Gravel, Ichihara II Terrace Deposits, Misaki Sand and Gravel Deposits), Unconformity (Ayasegawa Terrace Deposit, Akabane Formation, Kuromegawa Formation, Kumegawa Formation, Karaborigawa Formation, Obaradai Sand and Gravel Formation, Shimosueyoshi Formation, Ichihara I Terrace Deposits, Ichihara III Terrace Deposits, Miyata Formation, Nagaogawa I Terrace Deposit, Nagaogawa II Terrace Deposit, Nagaogawa III Terrace Deposit)

------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

• Distribution: Okamoto, Setagaya ward, Tokyo; Obaradai, Yokosuka city, Kanagawa pref.
• Tephra: Hk-OP, Hk-TP, Hk-MP, Hk-SP, Hk-CC1, Gr, Hk-CC5, F-S2S, Hk-KmP12

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