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Enako Gravel Bed (Kajita and Ishihara, 1977) Yamada et al., 1985

Invalid synonym: Yabayashi Gravel Bed

• Type locality: Enako town, Takayama city, Saitama prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Middle Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Talus deposit along Enako Fault
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Silt, Sands, Peat

• Thickness: ca. 20 - 25 m
• Distribution (Width): ca. 2 km
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Kamitakara Pyroclastic Flow Deposit, Yamaguchi Gravel Bed)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Nyukawa Pyroclastic Flow Deposit)

• Distribution: Yabayashi, Enako town, Takayama city, Gifu pref.; Shioya town - Iiyama - Yamaguchi town, Takayama city, Gifu pref.

• Yamada et al. (1985) Geology of the Takayama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 111p. (in Japanese with English abstract 9p.)
• Kawada (1982) Geology of the Mikkamachi District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 72p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)