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Shirataki Unit Aoya and Yokoyama, 2009

Invalid synonym: Besshi unit, Besshi nappe

• High P/T metamorphic rocks
• Deposition: Late Cretaceous

• Metamorphic facies: Pumpellyite-Actinolite, Greenschist, Epidote-Amphibolite

• Upper limit: Thrust fault
• Lower limit: Thrust fault

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

• Distribution: Niihama - Shirataki, Ehime pref.

• Noda et al. (2017) Geology of the Kan-onji District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 96p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)
• Aoya et al. (2017) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.123, no.7, pp.491-514 DOI