Sugisawa Tuff Breccia Member

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Sugisawa Tuff Breccia Member

Type locality: Sugisawa, Kaneyama city, Mogami county, Yamagata prefecture
Volcanic rocks
Miocene
Contemporaneous heterotopic facies: Hokizawa Tuff Breccia Member

Lithofacies: Pyroxene andesite volcaniclastic rocks
Lithofacies (Minor): Pyroxene olivine basalt volcaniclastic rocks

Thickness: 300 m or thicker
Lower limit: Boundary between the lower lapilli tuff dominant horizon and the upper tuff breccia dominant horizon
Lower limit: Transitional (Akakura Tuff Member)

Nozoki Formation
[ Upper ]
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Sugisawa Tuff Breccia Member / Hokizawa Tuff Breccia Member
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Akakura Tuff Member
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Nakanomata Tuff Breccia Member
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[ Lower ]

Uzen-Kaneyama (Western)
[ Upper ]
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Mamurogawa Formation
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Kamabuchi Formation
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Otaki Formation
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Kaneyama Formation
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Nozoki Formation
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[ Lower ]

Uzen-Kaneyama (Eastern)
[ Upper ]
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Sanzugawa Formation
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Torakeyama Formation
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Nozoki Formation
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[ Lower ]

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

Distribution: Sugisawa - Iriariya, Kaneyama city, Mogami county, Yamagata pref.

Ozawa and Sumi (1961) Uzenkaneyama, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 66p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)