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Asadagiri Sands and Mud

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Lacustrine
• Lithofacies: Sands, Mud, Scoria, Loam
• Lithofacies (Minor): Volcanic breccia
• Sedimentary structures: Parallel stratificaiton

• Thickness: 20 m or thicker
• Lower limit: Conformity (Tatamiishi Lava)

• Distribution: Asadagiri, Saku city, Nagano pref.
• Fossils (Plants): Broad-leaf trees, Graminae gen. et sp. indet

• Kawachi and Aramaki (1979) Geology of the Komoro District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 39p. (in Japanese with English abstract 2p.)