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Taniage Terrace Deposit Shinano River Terrace Research Group, 1968

• Type locality: Tokorohira, Tsunan city, Nakauonuma county, Niigata prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Terrace deposit
• Pleistocene (ca. 0.3 Ma)
• Correlation: T₀ Terrace Deposit

• Lithofacies: Sands, Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Loam

• Thickness: ca. 7 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Shinanogawa Loam)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (middle Uonuma Formation)

• Distribution: Tokorohira - Taniage, Tsunan city, Nakauonuma county, Niigata pref.; Takaba, Tokamachi city, Niigata pref.

• Takeuchi et al. (2000) Geology of the Matsunoyama Onsen District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 76p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)
• Shimazu and Tateishi (1993) Geology of the Naebasan District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 90p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)