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Nishikawara Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Middle terrace deposit
• Pleistocene (MIS 5e - 5c; ca. 130 - 100 ka or older)

• Lithofacies (Upper): Gravel-bearing muddy sands
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Sedimentary structures: Imbrication
• Paleocurrent: N40W - 10E

• Thickness: 60 - 90 m

• Distribution: Nishikawara, Himekawa river, Itoigawa city, Niigata pref.

• Nagamori et al. (2010) Geology of the Kotaki District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 130p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)