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Kodaira Formation Ueki and Sakai, 2007

• Type locality: tunnel of JR Musashino line, Tsuda town, Kodaira city, Tokyo, but it is impossible to observe now
• Coherent formation
• late Pleistocene (93 - 85 ka)
• Correlation: Musashino Terrace Deposit

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Climate: Cold (Plants fossils)
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Upper, Minor): Sands

• Thickness: 2 m or thicker
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Shimosueyoshi Loam)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Tokyo Formation)

• Distribution: Tsuda town - Ogawa town - Megurita town, Kodaira city, Tokyo
• Fossils (Wood fragments): Alnus sp., Picea sp., Ulmus davidiana

• Ueki and Sakai (2007) Geology of the Ome District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 189p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)