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Tate Formation Takano, 1994

• Type locality: Tategaokadanchi, Tate town, Hachioji city, Tokyo
• Coherent formation
• late Pliocene (Paleomagnetism)

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Silt, Sands
• Sedimentary structures: Parallel stratification, Trough cross-stratification, Wave ripples, Pipe rocks

• Thickness: 70 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Terada Formation, Terrace deposit)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Kobotoke Group)

• Distribution: Tate town - Terada town, Hachioji city, Tokyo
• Fossils: Shellfishes (Shallow marine), Pollen (Metasequoia sp.)

• 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.)