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Wakinosawa Andesites Uemura, 1975

• Type locality: Matsuzaki seashore - Wakinosawa seashore, Wakinosawa, Mutsu city, Aomori prefecture
• Volcanic rocks
• Miocene?
• Correlation: Ikokuma Andesites, Imabetsu Andesites
• Correlation (Lower): Yunomatagawa Formation

• Lithofacies: Andesite - Dacite lava, Tuff
• Lithofacies (Lower): Andesitic tuff breccia
• Lithofacies (Lower, Minor): Dacitic tuff breccia

• Thickness: 500 m or thicker
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Ohata Formation)
• Lower limit: Interfingered (Kozawa Formation)

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

• Distribution: Matsuzaki seashore - Wakinosawa seashore, Wakinosawa, Mutsu city, Aomori pref.

• Uemura (1976) Geology of the Wakinosawa District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 14p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)
• Uemura (1975) Geology of the Mutsukawauchi District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 39p. (in Japanese with English abstract 7p.)