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Higaneyama Rhyolite (Kuno, 1952) Oikawa and Ishizuka, 2011

• Type locality: Himenosawa park, Atami city, Shizuoka prefecture
• Volcanic rocks
Monogenetic volcano
• Pleistocene (0.3 Ma; ca. 0.4 - 0.35 Ma, K-Ar; 0.26 Ma, FT)

• Lithofacies: Clinopyroxene orthopyroxene rhyolite lava

• Lower limit: Unconformity (Yugaara volcano)

• Distribution: Himenosawa park - Mount Higaneyama, Atami city, Shizuoka pref.

• Oikawa and Ishizuka (2011) Geology of the Atami District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 61p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)