[ Top ] [ Japanese ]

Nukada Terrace Gravels

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Uwaichi Terrace Gravels

• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sands, Silt

• Thickness: 3 - 13 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Upper Miwa Formation = Namegata Member, Lower Miwa Formation = Kamiizumi Formation)

• Distribution: Ibaraki pref.

• Sakamoto et al. (1972) Geology of the Nakaminato District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 94p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)