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Upper Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

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

• Thickness: 5 - 10 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Saijo Formation)

• Distribution: Ogawaragawa river, Hiroshima city, Hiroshima pref.; Goso - Sanjobara - Taguchi, Higashihiroshima city, Hiroshima pref.

• Takagi and Mizuno (1999) Geology of the Kaitaichi District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 49p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)