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Middle Terrace Deposit

Invalid synonym: Ukeji Formation

• Type locality: Kubodaira, Makioka town, Yamanashi city, Yamanashi prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene (30,800 yBP, ¹⁴C)

• Lithofacies: Sands, Gravels

• Thickness: 3 - 5 m
• Upper limit: Conformity (Ukeji Loam)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Nirasaki Debris Avalanche Deposit, Higher Terrace Deposit, Omokawa Formation)

• Distribution: Kubodaira, Makioka town, Yamanashi city, Yamanashi pref.
• Fossils: Palaeoloxodon namadicus, Plants (Juglans mandshurica var. sachalinensis)
• Tephra: Yamamiya Pumice Fall Deposit

• 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.)