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Senkoji Sandstone Member (Fujita and Nakagawa, 1948)

Invalid synonym: Senkoji Formation

• Type locality: south of Senkoji temple, Tonami city, Toyama prefecture
• Coherent formation
• middle Miocene (14.8 Ma, U-Pb; 15.1, 14.8 Ma, FT)

• Depth of water: Lower shoreface
• Lithofacies: Sandstone
• Lithofacies (Minor): Pumiceous tuff
• Sedimentary structures: Sweley cross-stratification

• Thickness: 0 - 180 m
• Lower limit: Transitional conformity (Wadagawabashi Conglomerate Member)

------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

• Distribution: Senkoji temple, Tonami city - Osedani, Fuchu town, Toyama city, Toyama pref.
• Fossils: Shellfishes
• Tephra: TG1, TG2

• Nakajima et al. (2019) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.125, no.7, pp.483-516 DOI