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Fuganji Mudstone Member

• Coherent formation
• Miocene
• Correlation: Yubunegawa Black Shale Member

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Sedimentary facies (Upper): Deep marine
• Sedimentary facies (Lower): Shallow marine
• Lithofacies: Mudstone

• Lower limit: Unconformity (Kawabara Volcanic Member)

------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

• Distribution: Tottori pref.
• Fossils (Shellfishes): Propeamussium sp.

• Uemura et al. (1979) Geology of the Wakasa District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 91p. (in Japanese with English abstract 8p.)