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Kameyama Formation
- Coherent formation
- Pliocene - Pleistocene
- Sedimentary facies: Sandy channel/Sand bar deposit, Floodplain/marsh deposit, Flooding flow/natural levee deposit, Crevasse splay/Crevasse channel deposit
- Lithofacies: Mudstone-dominant interbedded mudstone, siltstone, and sandstone
- Sedimentary structures: Current ripples, Trough cross-stratification, Reversed graded bedding
- Thickness: 500 - 700 m
- Upper limit: Conformity (Nagasawa Tuff Bed)
- Lower limit: Conformity
------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown
- Distribution: Onbe river, Suzuka city, Mie pref.
- Fossils: Elephants (Footprints)
- Hoshi et al. (2014) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.120, no.9, pp.313-323 DOI
- Hoshi et al. (2013) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.119, no.10, pp.679-692 DOI