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Shogawa Gravel Bed

• Coherent formation
• Terrace deposits by Shogawa river
• Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies: Alluvial fan
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Muddy sands
• Sedimentary structures: Parallel stratification

• Thickness: 30 m or thicker

• Distribution: Toyama pref.

• Sakamoto (1963) Toyama, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 45p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)
• Sakamoto and Nozawa (1960) Yatsuo, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 69p. (in Japanese with English abstract 8p.)