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Daisen-Namatake Tephra

Abbr.: DNP

Invalid synonym: Daisen-Namatake Pumice Bed

• Tephra
• Pleistocene (ca. 68 ka)
• Correlation: Koshihata Tephra

• Lithofacies: Tuff

• Source: Daisen volcano (Tottori pref., Japan)
• Host: Middle Terrace Deposits (Yuragawa river)

• Distribution: Chugoku region - north Koshinetsu region, Honshu island, Japan
• Distribution: Osadano, Fukuchiyama city, Kyoto pref.

• Furusawa (2008) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.114, no.12, pp.618-631 DOI
• Kurimoto and Makimoto (1990) Geology of the Fukuchiyama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 97p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)