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Taniguchi Tuff Nozawa and Sakamoto, 1960

Abbr.: Tng

This tuff bed had been correlated to MT2.

• Type locality: Taniguchi, Tateyama city, Toyama prefecture
• Tephra
• Pleistocene (2.3 - 2.2 Ma)

• Lithofacies: Pumiceous tuff, Tuff

• Thickness: ca. 7 - 20 m
• Host: Mita Formation, Kurehayama Gravel Bed

• Distribution: Taniguchi, Tateyama city, Toyama pref.; Jorakuji temple, Mita, Yatsuo town, Toyama city, Toyama pref.; Kurokawa, Toyama city, Toyama pref.; Hinaka - Kakizawa, Kamiichi city, Nakaniikawa county, Toyama pref.; Tofukuji, Namegawa city, Toyama pref.
• Fossils: Trace fossils

• Nakajima et al. (2019) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.125, no.7, pp.483-516 DOI
• Sumi and Nozawa (1973) Geology of the Uozu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 104p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)
• Nozawa and Sakamoto (1960) Gohyakkoku, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 68p. (in Japanese with English abstract 10p.)