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Wadagawabashi Conglomerate Member Sakamoto and Nozawa, 1960

• Type locality: Wadagawa bridge, Tonami city, Toyama prefecture
• Coherent formation
• middle Miocene
• Contemporaneous heterotopic facies: Hirabayashi Sandstone Member

• Sedimentary facies: Delta front of gravelly fan delta
• Sedimentary facies (Conglomerate): Gravelly turbidite
• Depth of water (Sandstone): Lower shoreface
• Lithofacies: Conglomerate-dominant interbedded conglomerate and sandstone
• Lithofacies (Minor): Tuff, Mudstone
• Sedimentary structures: Wave-formed ripples, Cross stratification

• Thickness: 0 - 80 m
• Upper limit: Transitional conformity (Senkoji Sandstone Member)
• Lower limit: Bottom of coarse clastic rock bed
• Lower limit: Ikahama Unconformity (Higashibessho Formation), Unconformity (Mitani Mudstone Member)

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

• Distribution: Wadagawa bridge - Ichinotani, Tonami city, Toyama pref.
• Fossils (Bivalves): Lyropecten kagamianus, Ostrea sp., Venericardia sp., Chlamys ingenosa
• Fossils: Barnacles, Trace fossils

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