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Medake Pyroclastic Cone Deposit

• Type locality: Mount Medake, Mount Akita-Komagatake, Senboku city, Akita prefecture
• Tephra
• Pyroclastic cone
• Pleistocene - Holocene

• Lithofacies: Clinopyroxene-bearing olivine basalt, Volcanic blocks

• Distribution (Height): ca. 150 m
• Distribution (Diameter): ca. 400 m

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

• Distribution: Mount Medake, Mount Akita-Komagatake, Senboku city, Akita pref.

• Suto and Ishii (1987) Geology of the Shizukuishi District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 142p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)