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Kagikake Formation

• Type locality: Kagikake, Komi city, Minamisaku county, Nagano prefecture
• Volcanic rocks
• Pleistocene

• Lithofacies (Upper): Scoriaceous agglomerate, Volcanic breccia
• Lithofacies (Upper, Minor): Volcanic conglomerate
• Lithofacies (Lower): Scoriaceous conglomerate
• Lithofacies (Lower, Minor): Scoria, Pumice, Volcanic sands

• Thickness: 120 m or thicker
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Inagodake Pyroclastic Flow Deposit)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Aikigawa Mudflow Deposit, Hikage Formation)

• Distribution: Kagikake - Komihara, Komi city, Minamisaku county, Nagano pref.

• Kawachi (1974) Geology of the Tateshinayama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 114p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)