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Upper Terrace Deposits

• Type locality: Takihara - Goguchi - Ago - Yanaze, Misato city, Ochi county, Shimane prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Lithofacies: Sands, Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Clay

• Thickness: 5 - 10 m or thicker
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Sanbe Pumice Fall Deposits, Taiheizan Pyroclastic Flow Deposits)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Sanbe Pyroclastic Flow Deposits, Granite)

• Distribution: Takihara - Goguchi - Ago - Yanaze - Shiki - Kamemura - Obara - Kurihara - Onbara, Misato city, Ochi county, Shimane pref.; Kawai town, Oda city, Shimane pref.; Kijima dam - Nogaya - Shimoakana, Iinan city, Iishi county, Shimane pref.

• Hattori et al. (1983) Geology of the Sambesan District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 168p. (in Japanese with English abstract 7p.)