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Kuzu Formation

Sediments filling fissures and caves of limestone and/or dolomite of Unit 2 of Kuzu Complex

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Terrestrial
• Sedimentary facies: Fissure/cave-fill deposit
• Lithofacies: Clay
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sands, Gravels

• Distribution: Kuzu town, Sano city, Tochigi pref.
• Fossils: Apodemus speciosus, Cervus praenipponicus, Meles leucurus kuzuensis, Microtus montebelli, Mogera wogura, Phasianus sp., Rana aff. temporaria ornativentris

• Fujimoto (1961) Tochigi, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 62p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)