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Tanayama Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Middle terrace deposit
• Pleistocene (MIS 5e)

• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Sedimentary structures: Imbrication

• Thickness: ca. 20 - 100 m
• Upper limit: Conformity (Loam)

• Distribution: Tanayama, Asahi city, Shimoniikawa county, Toyama pref.; Otozawa, Kurobe city, Toyama pref.

• Takeuchi et al. (2017) Geology of the Tomari District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 121p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)