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Besshi Unit Aoki, 2019

• Type locality: Besshi, Ehime prefecture
• Deposition: Early Cretaceous (140 - 130 Ma, U-Pb)
• Accretion: Early Cretaceous (120 - 110 Ma, U-Pb)
• Correlation: Ojoin Formation

• Sedimentary facies: Trench-fill deposits, Hemi-pelagic sediments
• Metamorphic facies: Glaucophane, Epidote-Amphibolite, Eclogite
• Lithofacies: Pelitic schist, Green schist, Siliceous schist

• Upper limit: Upper Minawa Formation and/or Ojoin Formation

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• Distribution: central Shikoku

• Aoki et al. (2019) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.125, no.2, pp.183-194 DOI