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Sasaganaru Pyroclastic Flow Deposit Tsukui, 1984

• Type locality: Sasaganaru, Sekigane town, Kurayoshi city, Tottori prefecture
• Volcanic rocks
• middle Pleistocene (29.3 ka cal yBP, ¹⁴C)
• Contemporaneous heterotopic facies: Odori Tephra

• Sedimentary facies: Pyroclastic flow deposit
• Lithofacies: Biotite-orthopyroxene-hornblende dacite
• Lithofacies: Block-and-ash flow deposit
• Sedimentary structures: Unclear lamination, Reversed graded bedding

• Source: Karasugasen Lava Dome
• Eruptive volume: 1.0 km³ DRE
• Thickness: ca. 70 - 100 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Volcanic fan 3 deposit)
• Lower limit: Conformity (AT tephra)

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

• Distribution: 180 m - 800 m above sea level at Sasaganaru, Sekigane town, Kurayoshi city, Tottori pref.; 520 m - 1,300 m of SSE slope, Mount Daisen, Tottori pref.; 330 m - 1,300 m of SSE slope, Mount Daisen, Tottori pref.; Mount Karasugasen of Mount Daisen, Tottori pref.

• Yamamoto (2017) Bull. Geol. Surv. Japan, vol.68, no.1, pp.1-16 DOI
• Sawada et al. (2009) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.115, Supplement, pp.51-70 DOI