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Nishine Formation Machida et al., 1974

• Type locality: Nishine, Maioka town, Totsuka ward, Yokohama city, Kanagawa prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Fore-arc basin sediments (Kazusa trough)
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Oshinuma Formation

• Lithofacies: Sands
• Sedimentary structures: Cross stratification

• Thickness: ca. 15 m
• Upper limit: Conformity (Nishine Loam), Unconformity (Maioka Formation)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Kamikurata Formation)

• Distribution: Nishine, Maioka town, Totsuka ward, Yokohama city, Kanagawa pref.

• Mitsunashi and Kikuchi (1982) Geology of the Yokohama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 105p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)