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Shintani Lava

• Type locality: 2,200 - 2,300 above sea level, Shintani valley, Osaka town, Gero city, Gifu prefecture
• Volcanic rocks
• late Pleistocene

• Lithofacies: Augite hypersthene dacite lava

• Thickness: 100 m or thicker
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Yunotani Lava)

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

• Distribution: Shintani valley, Osaka town, Gero city, Gifu pref.

• Yamada and Kobayashi (1988) Geology of the Ontakesan District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 136p. (in Japanese with English abstract 9p.)