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Shimoshinzan Terrace Deposit

• Type locality: Akita prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Terrace deposit
• late Pleistocene
• Correlation: Lower Katanishi Formation

• Lithofacies: Sands
• Lithofacies (Top): Mud
• Sedimentary structures: Parallel stratification, Low angle cross-stratification

• Thickness: ca. 10 m or thicker
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Ichinomegata maar)

• Distribution: Cape Nyudozaki - Monzen - Oga city, Akita pref.

• Kano et al. (2011) Geology of the Toga and Funakawa District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 127p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)