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Higher Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene, Shimosueyoshi stage (100 ka)

• Sedimentary facies: Marine wave-cut platform deposits
• Lithofacies: Rounded gravels

• Thickness: several m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Awashimaura Dolerites)

• Distribution: Makidaira, Awashimaura city, Iwafune county, Niigata pref.

• Kato (1981) Geology of the Awashima District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 32p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)