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Medake Lava

Synonym: Medake Prasitic Cone Lava

• Type locality: Mount Medake, Mount Akita-Komagatake, Senboku city, Akita prefecture
• Volcanic rocks
• Holocene (1932AD)

• Lithofacies: Olivine basalt lava (more than 3 flow units)

• Thickness (A unit): ca. 3 m or thicker
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Kodake Lava)

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

• Distribution: Mount Medake, Mount Akita-Komagatake, Senboku city, Akita pref.

• Suto and Ishii (1987) Geology of the Shizukuishi District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 142p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)