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Suzaki Andesite

• Type locality: Suzaki, Shimoda city, Shizuoka prefecture
• Volcanic rocks
• Late Miocene - Pliocene
• Contemporaneous heterotopic facies: Asahi Formation
• Correlation: Irozaki Andesite

• Sedimentary facies: Marine, Products of submarine volcanoes
• Lithofacies: Hypersthene andesitic lava, Volcanic breccia
• Lithofacies (Minor): Hyaloclastite, Volcanic conglomerate

• Thickness: 550 m or thicker
• Upper limit: Conformity, Interfingered (Ishiki Formation)
• Lower limit: Unconformity

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

• Distribution: Suzaki - Mikomotojima island, Shimoda city, Shizuoka pref.; Nagatsuro, Minamiizu city, Kamo county, Shizuoka pref.

• Kano and Ito (2016) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.122, no.8, pp.413-432, DOI
• Sumi (1958) Mikomotojima, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 33p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)