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Ashio Rhyolitic Welded Tuff
Invalid synonym: Ashio Rhyolite
- Type locality: Mount Bizentateyama, Ashio town, Nikko city, Tochigi prefecture
- Volcanic rocks
- Caldera-fill pyroclastic flow deposit
- Miocene (10.3 Ma, U-Pb; 11.3 Ma, K-Ar)
- Lithofacies: Rhyolitic welded tuff
- Lithofacies (Minor): Rhyolite dikes, Tuff breccia
- Thickness: A few dozen m
- Distribution: Funnel shape
- Distribution (Major axis): ca. 4 km
- Distribution (Minor axis): ca. 3 km
- Upper limit: Unconformity (Kesamaru volcano, Funaishi Formation)
- Distribution: Mount Bizentateyama - Matsuki - Ginzandaira, Ashio town, Nikko city, Gunma pref.
- Kawata and Ozawa (1955) Ashio, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 57p. (in Japanese with English abstract 7p.)
- Kawata (1955) Nantaizan, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 43p. (in Japanese with English abstract 7p.)