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Akakuradake Lava Nanbu and Tanida, 1961

• Type locality: Mount Akakura, Aomori city, Aomori prefecture
• Post-caldera volcanoes
• Volcanic rocks
• Pleistocene (ca. 0.3 - 0.0 Ma; 0.24, 0.14, 0.03 Ma, K-Ar)

• Lithofacies: Quartz olivine augite hypersthene andesite, Olivine augite hypersthene andesite
• Lithofacies: Aa lava, Block lava

• Thickness: ca. 900 m
• Upper limit: Interfingered (Idodake Lava)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Tamoyachidake Lava)

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

• Distribution: Mount Akakura, Aomori city, Aomori pref.

• Takarada and Muraoka (2004) Geology of the Hakkoda San District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 86p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)