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Haranomachi Formation Takada Plain Research Group, 1965

• Coherent formation
• Haranomachi Terrace Deposit
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Middle Terrace Deposit

• Lithofacies: Silt, Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sands, Peat

• Thickness: 30 m or thinner
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Younger Sand Dune)
• Lower limit: Unconformity

• Distribution: Kakizaki - Oginotani - Higashitorigoe, Kakizaki ward, Joetsu city, Niigata pref.; Rokumanbu - Haranomachi, Yoshikawa ward, Joetsu city, Niigata pref.
• Fossils (Freshwater bivalves): Corbicula cf. japonica
• Fossils (Plants): Aesculus sp., Alnus sp., Fagus sp., Juglans mandshurica var. sachalinensis, Magnolia kobus, Styrax sp.

• Takeuchi et al. (1996) Geology of the Kakizaki District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 48p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)