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Yodo Basalt Lava

• Type locality: Otani, Yodo, Saji town, Tottori city, Tottori prefecture
• Volcanic rocks
• Pliocene

• Lithofacies: Basalt lava
• Sedimentary structures: Mialolitic

• Thickness: 0 - 40 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Tando Tuff Breccia)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Granite, Sangun Metamorphic Rocks)

• Distribution: Yodo, Saji town, Tottori city, Tottori pref.

• Yamada (1966) Chizu, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 69p. (in Japanese with English abstract 11p.)