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Lower sheet

• Mohorovičić discontinuity of the ocean floor crust

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Sedimentary facies: Bedded cumulate
• Lithofacies (Upper): Gneissose meta-gabbro
• Lithofacies (Middle): Interbedded leucocratic and melanocratic gabbro
• Lithofacies (Lower): Olivine clinopyroxinite
• Lithofacies (Lower, Minor): Clinopyroxinite, Plagioclase websterite, Plagioclase olivine websterite, Wehrite
• Lithofacies (Minor): Mélange facies
• Matrix: Weakly metamorphosed mudstone, tuffaceous mudstone and sandstone

• Lower limit: Thrust fault (Hikami Formation)

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

• Distribution: Asago city, Hyogo pref.

• Suda and Hayasaka (2009) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.115, no.6, pp.266-287 DOI