Uenotaira Interbeds of Volcaniclastic Rocks, Conglomerate and Sandstone Member

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Uenotaira Interbeds of Volcaniclastic Rocks, Conglomerate and Sandstone Member (Matsuda and Mizuno, 1955) Ozaki and Sugiyama, 2018

Type locality: east of Uenotaira, Minobu city, Minamikoma county, Yamanashi prefecture
Coherent formation
late Miocene - Pliocene
Correlation: Toinosawa Member

Sedimentary facies: Marine
Depth of water: Lower bathyal
Lithofacies: Interbedded andesite tuff breccia, lapilli tuff, tuff, volcanic conglomerate and tuffaceous sandstone, Interbedded sandstone and mudstone
Sedimentary structures: Graded bedding, Parallel stratification

Thickness: ca. 330 - 1,000 m
Lower limit: Conformity (Takenoshima Interbeds of Sandstone and Mudstone Member)

Shimobe Formation (North)
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Uenotaira Interbeds of Volcaniclastic Rocks, Conglomerate and Sandstone Member
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Takenoshima Interbeds of Sandstone and Mudstone Member
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Shimobe Formation (South)
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Koutsubuna Member
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Toinosawa Member
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Fujikawa Group (Eastern zone)
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Akebono Formation
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Minobu Formation
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Shimobe Formation
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------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

Distribution: Shimobe - Uenotaira - Onuta - Tsubakizori - Shimokawa, Minobu city, Minamikoma county, Yamanashi pref.

Ozaki and Sugiyama (2018) Geology of the Minobu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 169p. (in Japanese with English abstract 7p.)