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Shimoide Formation Watanabe and Ko (1943)

• Type locality: Esashiide, Oshu city, Iwate prefecture
• High P/T metamorphic rocks
• Protolith: Accretionary complex including Mélange facies
• Metamorphism: Cambrian (500 Ma)

• Lithofacies: Greenschist, Siliceous schist, Slate
• Lithofacies (Protolith): Schalstein

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

• Distribution: Esashiide, Oshu city, Iwate pref.

• Hirokawa and Yoshida (1954) Hitokabe, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 33p. (in Japanese with English abstract 14p.)