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Meshimoriyama Volcanics

• Volcanic rocks
• Neogene
• Intruded by: Meshimoriyama Dyke

• Lithofacies: Scoriaceous agglomerate, Tuff breccia, Volcanic breccia, Lava
• Lithofacies (Minor): Scoria

• Thickness: 150 m or thicker
• Thickness (Lava, A flow unit): 3 - 20 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Kobozaka Pyroclastic Rocks)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Masutomi Group)

• Distribution: Mount Meshimoriyama - Mount Maruyama, Minamimaki city, Minamisaku county pref.; Shinshu pass - Kokkai bridge, Nagano pref. - Yamanashi pref.; Mount Yokoosan - Mount Asahiyama - Kiyosato - Mikado - Asakawa - Kaiganji temple, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

• Kawachi (1977) Geology of the Yatsugatake District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 92p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)