Younger Sand Dune II

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Younger Sand Dune II

Invalid synonym: Arahama Sand Dune II

Type locality: Sazanami Gakuen, Matsunami, Kashiwazaki city, Niigata prefecture
Coherent formation
Younger sand dune deposit
Holocene (Heian era - Muromachi era)
Correlation: Coastal Sand Dune III-1 (Niigata Sand Dune)

Sedimentary facies: Coast-parallel dune ridges
Lithofacies: Sands

Lower limit: Unconformity (Younger Sand Dune I, Kashiwazaki Formation)

Arahama Sand Dune
[ Upper ]
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Younger Sand Dune II
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Younger Sand Dune I
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[ Lower ]

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

Distribution: Arahama Sand Dune, Kashiwazaki city, Niigata pref.

Kobayashi et al. (1995) Geology of the Kashiwazaki District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 102p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)