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Nagisan Andesites

• Type locality: Mount Nagisan, Tottori prefecture - Okayama prefecture
• Volcanic rocks
• Mesozoic

• Lithofacies: Pyroxene andesite lava, Olivine pyroxene andesite lava, Pyroclastic rocks, Hornblende andesite lava

• Thickness: 300 m or thicker
• Lower limit: Conformity (Tsukawagawa Conglomerate, Obatake Rhyolite), Unconformity (Sangun Metamorphic Rocks)

• Distribution: Mount Nagisan, Tottori pref. - Okayama pref.; Mount Yahazuyama - Mount Shiroganeyama, Tsuyama city, Okayama pref.

• Yamada (1966) Chizu, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 69p. (in Japanese with English abstract 11p.)