Tsuchihashi Loam

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Tsuchihashi Loam Tsurumi and Omura, 1966

Type locality: Tsuchihashi, Takatsu ward, Kawasaki city, Kanagawa prefecture
Loam
Pleistocene
Contemporaneous heterotopic facies (Lower): Totsuka Formation
Correlation: Tsuchiya Loam, T-Am

Lithofacies: Loam

Thickness: ca. 11 m
Upper limit: Unconformity (Shimosueyoshi Formation)
Lower limit: Conformity (Totsuka Formation), Unconformity (Sannodai Old Dune Sands, Maioka 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: Tsuchihashi, Takatsu ward, Kawasaki city, Kanagawa pref.; Samegaya, Mutsukawa, Minami ward, Yokohama city, Kanagawa pref.; Noba town - Shimonagatani town, Konan ward, Yokohama city, Kanagawa pref.; Nishine, Maioka town, Totsuka ward, Yokohama city, Kanagawa pref.
Tephra: Ts-1, Ts-2, Ts-3, Ts-4, Ts-5, Ts-6, Ts-7, Ts-8, Ts-9, Ts-10, Ts-11

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.)