Mikaburiyama Welded Tuff

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Mikaburiyama Welded Tuff

Type locality: East of Mount Mikaburiyama, Chino city, Nagano prefecture
Tephra
Pleistocene

Lithofacies: Hypersthene augite andesite welded tuff

Thickness: ca. 30 m
Lower limit: Unconformity (Yokoyamakyo Lava)

Younger period (Mount Iodake)
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Mikaburiyama Welded Tuff
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Minenomatsume Lava
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Minotonakayama Lava
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Amigasayama Lava
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Itokaya Pyroclastic Flow Deposit
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Amidadake Lava
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Yatsugatake volcano
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Younger period
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Older period
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------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

Distribution: Mount Mikaburiyama - Natsuzawa pass, Chino city, Nagano pref.

Kawachi (1977) Geology of the Yatsugatake District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 92p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)
Kawachi (1974) Geology of the Tateshinayama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 114p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)