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Karasawagawa Member Yoshino, 1982

• Type locality: Karasawa river, Suwa city, Nagano prefecture
• Volcanic rocks
• middle Miocene
• Intruded by: Dolerite

• Lithofacies: Dacite - Rhyolite lava, Hyaloclastite
• Lithofacies (Minor): Volcaniclastic rocks

• Thickness: 500 m or thicker
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Enrei Volcanic Rocks)
• Lower limit: Conformity (Kumakubo Member)

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

• Distribution: Karasawa river - Jinguji - Mount Moriya - Ushiroyama, Suwa city, Nagano pref.

• Makimoto et al. (1996) Geology of the Takato District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 114p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)