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Syori Terrace Deposit

Synonym: Shori Terrace Deposit

• Coherent formation
• Higher terrace
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Hitsujiyama terrace deposit, Shimosueyoshi Formation

• Lithofacies (Upper): Sands, Sandy clay
• Lithofacies (Lower): Gravels
• Sedimentary structures (Upper): Parallel stratification

• Distribution: Mount Meshiyama, Shori, Kanna city, Tano county, Gunma pref.

• Okubo and Horiguchi (1969) Geology of the Mamba District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 65p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)