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Younger Sand Dune Deposit

• Coherent formation
• Modern coastal dune
• Holocene

• Lithofacies: Sands

• Thickness: 3 - 10 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Nishime Formation, Older Dune Deposits, Kisakata Debris Avalanche Deposit, Kisakata Formation)

• Distribution: Akita pref.

• Ozawa et al. (1982) Geology of the Kisakata District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 73p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)