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Higher Terrace Deposit

Invalid synonym: Jokoji Formation

• Type locality: Kubodaira, Makioka town, Yamanashi city, Yamanashi prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Climate: Cool (Plant fossils)
• Lithofacies: Sands, Gravels

• Thickness: 20 - 30 m
• Upper limit: Conformity (Jokoji Loam), Unconformity (Middle Terrace Deposit)

------ Transitional, ~~~~~~ Intrusive, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

• Distribution: Kubodaira - Kurashina, Makioka town, Yamanashi city, Yamanashi pref.; Mount Atagoyama, Kofu city, Yamanashi pref.
• Fossils (Mount Atagoyama): Carpinus sp., Carpinus laxiflora, Fagus sp.

• Mimura et al. (1984) Geology of the Mitake-Shosenkyo District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 61p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)