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Kongodoji Lava

• Type locality: Mount Kongodojiyama, Kita ward, Kobe city, Hyogo prefecture
• Volcanic rocks
• Late Cretaceous (72.1 Ma, K-Ar)
• Intruded in: Tamaze Formation

• Lithofacies: Rhyolite lava
• Lithofacies (Bottom): Hyaloclastite
• Paleocurrent: to South

• Distribution: Mount Kongodojiyama, Kita ward, Kobe city, Hyogo pref.

• Huzita and Kasama (1983) Geology of the Kobe District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 115p. (in Japanese with English abstract 8p.)