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Maedake Formation

Another interpretation is a chert slab in Tano Formation

• Type locality: Iheya island, Okinawa prefecture
• Accretionary complex
• Accretion: Middle Jurassic
• Deposition (Chert): late Carboniferous - Permian, Triassic (Radiolarians)

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Chert
• Lithofacies (Minor): Mudstone

• Upper limit: Thrust fault
• Lower limit: Thrust fault

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

• Distribution: Iheya island, Okinawa pref.
• Fossils: Radiolarians

• Miyagi et al. (2013) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.119, no.10, pp.665-678 DOI