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Middle Fluvial Terrace Deposits

Invalid synonym: D2 Terrace Deposit

• Coherent formation
• late Pleistocene

• Lithofacies: Sands, Gravels, Mud
• Lithofacies (Minor): Peat

• Thickness: a few dozen m or thicker
• Upper limit: Unconformity (DKP)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Itoo Formation)

• Distribution: Sue town - Shimizubata - Kamouchi - Yamauchi - Hirao - Shizugaoka, Fukui city, Fukui pref.
• Fossils: Rodentia, Fish (Cyprinidae), Insects, Trapa sp.

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