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Lower Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene (ca. 20 ka)

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

• Thickness: 5 - 10 m

• Distribution: Nikogawa river, Yakeyama town - Kumano town, Kure city, Hiroshima pref.; Kurosegawa river, Higashihiroshima city, Hiroshima pref.
• Tephra: AT

• 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.)