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Kurofuji 5th-stage Pyroclastic Flow Deposit

• Type locality: Yokoiwa, Kamiashizawa, Kai city, Yamanashi prefecture
• Tephra
• early Pleistocene
• Intruded by: Kurofuji Dikes

• Lithofacies: Dacite pyroclastic flow deposit (more than 3 flow units)

• Thickness: 140 m or thicker
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Kurofuji Lava Domes)
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Kurofuji 4th-stage Pyroclastic Flow Deposit, Kurofuji 3rd-stage Pyroclastic Flow Deposit)

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

• Distribution: Kamiashizawa, Kai city, Yamanashi pref.

• Mimura et al. (1984) Geology of the Mitake-Shosenkyo District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 61p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)