Maioka Loam

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Maioka Loam Association for Kanto Quaternary research, 1973

Type locality: Yokohama Maioka Hospital, Nishine, Totsuka ward, Yokohama city, Kanagawa prefecture
Loam
Pleistocene
Correlation: Soda Loam
Contemporaneous heterotopic facies (Lower): Maioka Formation

Lithofacies: Loam

Thickness: ca. 19 m
Upper limit: Unconformity (Tsuchihashi Loam)
Lower limit: Conformity (Maioka Formtion), Unconformity (Sannodai Old Dune Sands, Nishine Loam)

Tama Loam (Yokohama, Kanagawa pref.)
[ Upper ]
+__+__+__+__+_
Tsuchihashi Loam
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Maioka Loam
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Nishine Loam
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Sannodai Loam
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Hirato Loam
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[ Lower ]

Kanto Loam
[ Upper ]
+__+__+__+__+_
Tachikawa Loam
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Musashino Loam
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Shimosueyoshi Loam
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Tama Loam
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[ Lower ]

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

Distribution: Nishine - Shinano town - Hirato town, Totsuka ward, Yokohama city, Kanagawa pref.; Tonogaya, Hodogaya ward, Yokohama city, Kanagawa pref.; Yasashi town, Asahi ward, Yokohama city, Kanagawa pref.
Tephra: Mi-1, Mi-2, Mi-3, Mi-4, Mi-5, Mi-6, Mi-7, Mi-8, Mi-9, Mi-10, Mi-11, Mi-12, Mi-13

Mitsunashi and Kikuchi (1982) Geology of the Yokohama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 105p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)