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Kakida Ash Flow Deposits
Invalid synonym: Kakida Pumice Tuff
- Type locality: Kakida, Oshiro town, Oda city, Shimane prefecture
- Tephra
- Pleistocene (ca. 2.1 Ma)
- Sedimentary facies: Terrestrial
- Sedimentary facies (Minor): Shallow brackish less than 1 m
- Sedimentary facies (Top): Ash-cloud surge deposit
- Lithofacies: Pumice tuff (Some flow units)
- Sedimentary structures (Minor): Columnar joints, Parallel stratification, Wavy stratification, Low-angle cross stratification
- Paleocurrent: from North to South
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- Distribution: Kakida - Kawakami - Tonomura, Oda city, Shimane pref.
- Kano et al. (2001) Geology of the Yunotsu and Gotsu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 129p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)