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Kusatsu-Shirane volcano

• Type locality: Kusatsu city, Agatsuma county, Gunma prefecture
• Volcanic rocks
• Pleistocene - Holocene (0.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• Eruptive volume: 33 km³
• Eruptive rate: 0.1 km³/ka
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Yokoteyama Lava, Ojo Formation, Takai Volcanic Rocks)

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

• Distribution: Kusatsu city, Agatsuma county, Gunma pref.

• Terada (2018) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.124, no.4, pp.251-270 DOI
• Ota (1957) Kusatsu, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 75p. (in Japanese with English abstract 8p.)
• Ota and Katada (1955) Suzaka, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 54p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)