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Sakuragawa Terrace Deposit

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene (35 - 10 ka, , ¹⁴C)

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies (Upper): Mud
• Lithofacies (Bottom): Sands and gravels

• Distribution: Hanamuro river, Sasagi, Tsukuba city, Ibaraki pref.

Fossils (possibly these fossils are moved by archaic humans): Palaeoloxodon naumanni, Sinomegaceros sp., Japanese sea lion (Zalophus japonicus)

• Iizumi et al. (2010) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.116, no.5, pp.243-251 DOI