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Furudera Tuff

Marginal facies of Muro Pyroclastic Flow Deposit

• Volcanic rocks
• Miocene (15.3 Ma, FT)
• Correlation: Tamateyama Tuff Bed, Sekibutsu Tuff Member

• Lithofacies: Tuff
• Sedimentary structures: Parallel stratification, Cross stratification

• Thickness: 3.5 m or thicker

• Distribution: Kaseyama, Kizugawa city, Kyoto pref.
• Distribution: Jigoku valley, Kasugano village, Nara city, Nara Nara pref.; Nakanokawa village, Nara city, Nara pref.; East foot, Mount Kasuga, Nara city, Nara pref.; Myoga, Nara city, Nara pref.

• Yamashita et al. (2007) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.113, no.7, pp.340-352 DOI
• Iwano et al. (2007) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.113, no.7, pp.326-339 DOI