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T₃ Terrace Deposit

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Middle Terrace Deposit, Honokizaka Terrace Deposit, Uenoyama Terrace, Shiminnoie Terrace, Kowada Terrace

• Climate: Cool (Pollen)
• Lithofacies: Sands, Gravels

• Thickness: ca. 6 - 30 m
• Upper limit: Maibara Loam

• Distribution: Kuriyama, Uonuma city, Niigata pref.; Kawaguchitamugiyama, Nagaoka city, Niigata pref.
• Fossils (Pollen): Conifers

• Yanagisawa et al. (1986) Geology of the Ojiya District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 177p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)