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Nishidake Lava

• Volcanic rocks
• Pleistocene

• Lithofacies: Lava (ca. 30 flow units), Agglomerate, Scoria agglomerate, Volcanic breccia
• Lithofacies (Minor): Scoria

• Distribution (Width): ca. 2.5 km
• Thickness: ca. 200 m
• Thickness (A unit): 1 - 40 m
• Running distance: ca. 5 km
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Hanatoya Lava)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Kannondaira Lava)

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

• Distribution: Mount Nishidake, Fujimi city, Suwa county, Nagano pref.

• Kawachi (1977) Geology of the Yatsugatake District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 92p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)