[ Top ] [ Japanese ]

High I Terrace Deposit

• Type locality: Akita prefecture
• River bed deposit of old Yoneshiro river
• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Ishikurayama Formation

• Sedimentary facies (Northeast): Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies (Nortwest): Marine
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sands, Mud

• Thickness: 20 - 30 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Nakazawa Formation, Sasaoka Formation, Tentokuji Formation, Funakawa Formation, Onnagawa Formation)

• Distribution: Taneume river - Odaino, Noshiro city, Akita pref.

• Ozawa et al. (1984) Geology of the Noshiro District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 91p. (in Japanese with English abstract 9p.)