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Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• middle - late Pleistocene

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

• Thickness: ca. 20 - 30 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Kuga Group)

• Distribution: Hirata - Furujuku, Iwakuni city, Yamaguchi pref.

• Higashimoto et al. (1983) Geology of the Iwakuni District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 79p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)