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Shuzenji White Tuffs

• Volcanic rocks
• Miocene
• Intruded by: Andesite, Dacite, Biotite rhyolite, Basalt

• Lithofacies: Pigeonite series
• Lithofacies: Pumiceous dacite tuff breccia, Tuff
• Lithofacies (Minor): Volcanic breccia, Volcanic conglomerate, Tuffaceous sandstone, Calcareous sandstone, Tuffaceous shale, Andesite lava, Dacite lava, Rhyolite lava

• Thickness: 2,000 m or thicker
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Ohito Andesites, Shimoomi Basalt, Shimotaga volcano)
• Lower limit: Transitional (Yugashima Propylites)

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

• Distribution: Shizuoka pref.
• Fossils: Foraminifera (Lepidocyclina sp.)

• Sawamura (1955) Shuzenji, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 47p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)