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Kanazu Tuff

• Type locality: Kanazu, Oyama, Kakuda city, Miyagi prefecture
• Tephra
• Miocene
• Contemporaneous heterotopic facies: Same as Tsukinoki Tuff

• Lithofacies: Pumice tuff
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sandy tuff

• Thickness: 3 - 8 m
• Host: Lower Member of Kaneyama Formation
• Upper limit: Conformity (Upper Member of Kaneyama Formation)
• Lower limit: Conformity (Lower Member of Kaneyama Formation)

• Distribution: Kanazu, Oyama, Kakuda city, Miyagi pref.; Aoba - Hatamaki pass - Mount Tenmyozan, Marumori city, Igu county, Miyagi pref.

• Fujita et al. (1988) Geology of the Kakuda District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 99p. (in Japanese with English abstract 9p.)