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Akakurazawa Mudflow Deposit

associated with more than 60 mudflow hills

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene (before 10 ka)

• Sedimentary facies: Terrestrial
• Lithofacies : Mudflow deposit
• Paleocurrent: Akazawa creek to Northeast

• Thickness (Average): 20 m
• Area: ca. 65 km²
• Volume: ca. 3 km³

• Distribution: northeast flank of Mount Iwakisan, Aomori pref.

• Ozawa and Hirayama (1970) Geology of the Goshogawara District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 25p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)