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Takaragi Terrace Deposit (Akutsu, 1957)

• Type locality: Kamiyokota town, Utsunomiya city, Tochigi prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Fill Strath terrace
• Pleistocene (80 - 60 ka, Tephra)

• Sedimentary facies (Lower): Fluvial
• Lithofacies (Upper): Loam
• Lithofacies (Lower): Gravels, Sands
• Sedimentary structures (Lower): Imbrication, Parallel stratification

• Thickness (Upper): 4 - 6 m
• Thickness (Lower): 6 m or thicker
• Upper limit: Conformity (Takaragi Loam)

• Distribution: Kamiyokota town, Utsunomiya city, Tochigi pref.; Tagawa river - Kinugawa river - Kurokawa river, Utsunomiya city, Tochigi pref.; Kaminokawa city, Kawachi county, Tochigi pref.

• Yoshikawa et al. (2010) Geology of the Utsunomiya District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 79p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)