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Higher Terrace Deposits

Invalid synonym: Furuta Formation

• Coherent formation
• early Pleistocene (ca. 0.25 Ma, Tephra)

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

• Thickness: ca. 5 - 15 m

• Distribution: Kamisukaigawa river, Ozu city, Ehime pref.; Furuta - Uchiko - Shiromawari - Iyoki - Ose - Fumotogawa river - Nakayamagawa river - Odagawa river - Kawanobori, Uchiko city, Kita county, Ehime pref.; Saredani, Iyo city, Ehime pref.
• Fossils: Chamaecyparis pisifera, Picea cf. maximowiczii
• Tephra: KUrochibo 1, Kurochibo 2, Kurochibo 3, Kurochibo 4

• Banno et al. (2010) Geology of the Ozu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 58p. (in Japanese with English abstract 2p.)