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Takao Andesites

• Volcanic rocks
• Pleistocene

• Lithofacies: Andesite lava, Lapilli tuff

• Thickness: ca. 100 - 400 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Chiya Volcanic Rocks, Mikunisan Rhyolites)

• Distribution: Takao - Komodawa pass - Onzen - Mount Kenmoriyama - Yogo - Oino - Fushidani - Asobuchi, Niimi city, Okayama pref.

• Hattori (1978) Geology of the Kami-Iwami District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 65p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)