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Kurofuji Lava Domes

• Type locality: Mount Tachiokayama, Kofu city - Kai city, Yamanashi prefecture
• Volcanic rocks
• early Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Lava domes (4 -5 domes)
• Sedimentary facies (Minor): Lava flow
• Lithofacies: Dacite lava

• Thickness: 300 m
• Thickness (Lava flow): 20 - 30 m
• Distribution (Diameter): 400 - 1,400 m
• Distribution (Height): 160 - 260 m
• Distribution (Lava flow, Width): 300 m
• Distribution (Lava flow, Length): 900 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Yoroiiwa Pyroclastic Flow Deposit)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Kurofuji 5th-stage Pyroclastic Flow Deposit)

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

• Distribution: Mount Tachiokayama, Kofu city - Kai city, Yamanashi pref.

• Mimura et al. (1984) Geology of the Mitake-Shosenkyo District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 61p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)