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Yunosawa caldera

• Type locality: Aomori prefecture
• Valles type caldera volcano
• Caldera forming a marine embayment
• Volcanic rocks
• Pliocene (ca. 3.5 Ma)

• Sedimentary facies: Marine

• Distribution (Diameter): ca. 15 km

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• Distribution: 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.)
• Muraoka and Hase (1990) Geology of the Kuroishi District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 124p. (in Japanese with English abstract 8p.)