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Hino Terrace Deposit Hatori and Juen, 1958

Invalid synonym: Hino Formation

• Type locality: Hinodai, Hino city, Tokyo
• Coherent formation
• Higher terrace deposit
• middle Pleistocene (MIS 6)
• Correlation: Tokorozawa Formation

• Lithofacies: Gravels

• Thickness: 5 - 8 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Shimosueyoshi Loam)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Kazusa Group)

• Distribution: Hinodai, Hino city, Tokyo; Kobiki town, Hachioji city, Tokyo

• Ueki et al. (2013) Geology of the Hachioji District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 137p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)