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Kureha Pyroclastic Member

• Volcanic rocks
• Pleistocene
• Contemporaneous heterotopic facies: Kitadai Sand member

• Lithofacies (Upper): Andesitic scoria
• Lithofacies (Lower): Interbedded tuffaceous sands and tuff, Volcanic sands

• Thickness: ca. 8 m
• Thickness (Upper): ca. 3 m
• Thickness (Lower): ca. 5 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Tomosaka Graval Bed)
• Lower limit: Conformity (Togechaya Gravel, Sand and Mud Alternation Member), Unconformity (Nishitoyama Sandstone Member)

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

• Distribution: Toyama pref.

• Sakamoto (1963) Toyama, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 45p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)