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Chitapink Tephra

• Type locality: Kowa, Mihama city, Chita county, Aichi prefecture
• Tephra
• Pleistocene

• Lithofacies: Pumiceous volcanic ash
• Sedimentary structures: Parallel stratification

• Thickness: ca. 100 - 250 cm
• Host: Tokoname Formation

• Distribution: Kowa - Lake Yoshidaike - Lake Shirasawanoike, Mihama city, Chita county, Aichi pref.

• Kondo and Kimura (1987) Geology of the Morozaki District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 93p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)