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Lateral volcanoes

• Type locality: Oshima city, Tokyo
• Volcanic rocks
• Stratovolcano, Caldera volcano
• late Pleistocene (20,000 - 15,000 yBP, ¹⁴C or later)

• Lithofacies: Low-alkaline tholeiite series
• Lithofacies: Pigeonite series
• Lithofacies: Olivine basalt, Pyroxene olivine basalt, Pyroxene basalt

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

• Distribution: Oshima city, Tokyo

• Isshiki (1984) Geology of the Oshima District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 133p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)