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Upper Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies: Sands, Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Silt

• Thickness: 5 - 10 m or thinner

• Distribution: Yakeyama town - Okujo - Nikogawa river, Kure city, Hiroshima pref.; Nomio, Higashihiroshima city, Hiroshima pref.

• Higashimoto et al. (1985) Geology of the Kure District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 93p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)