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Higher 2 Terrace Deposit

• Coherent formation
• middle Pleistocene
• Correlation: Terao Pyroclastic Flow Deposit

• Lithofacies: Gravels, Sands

• Upper limit: Unconformity (upper - middle Maibara Loam, Kaisaka Loam, In-KT)

• Distribution: Sekikawa river, Oshika, Myoko city, Niigata pref.; Chikuma river, Kashiwao, Iiyama city, Nagano pref.

• Yanagisawa et al. (2000) Geology of the Iiyama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 144p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)