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Higher Fluvial Terrace Deposits

Invalid synonym: Shukudo Formation, D1 Terrace Deposit

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Lithofacies: Sands, Gravels, Mud

• Thickness: ca. 22 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Itoo Formation)

• Distribution: Kamiitoo, Echizen city, Nyu county, Fukui pref.; Shukudo town - Nishibessho town - Takinami, Fukui city, Fukui pref.
• Fossils (Plants): Juglans mandshurica var. sachalinensis, Trapa sp.

• Kano et al. (2007) Geology of the Fukui District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 68p.