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1 December 2008 Carboniferous and Permian foraminifers from limestone fragments contained in the Upper Cretaceous Hiromine Formation in north of Himeji, Hyogo, Japan
Fumio Kobayashi
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Abstract

Limestone fragments with Late Paleozoic foraminifers were distinguished at Okusukain and Aisaka, north of Himeji, Nishi-Harima district, Hyogo, Japan. They are contained within matrix-supported conglomerate of caldera-originated lacustrine deposits in the Upper Cretaceous Hiromine Formation, which is mostly composed of volcaniclastic rocks. Age distribution of the limestone fragments is variable in comparison with their very rare occurrence. Late Visean, Serpukhovian or early Bashkirian, Moscovian, Wordian and Lopingian ages were attached to the fragments based on their age diagnostic foraminifers, in addition to questionable post-Triassic limestone cobble. All of these limestone fragments are thought to have been derived from the Akiyoshi and Maizuru terranes, and have special paleogeographic and tectonic implications in relation to the nappe tectonics of the Inner Zone of Southwest Japan.

Fumio Kobayashi "Carboniferous and Permian foraminifers from limestone fragments contained in the Upper Cretaceous Hiromine Formation in north of Himeji, Hyogo, Japan," Paleontological Research 12(4), 411-418, (1 December 2008). https://doi.org/10.2517/prpsj.12.411
Received: 3 October 2007; Accepted: 1 August 2008; Published: 1 December 2008
KEYWORDS
foraminifers
Late Visean to Lopingian
Limestone fragments
provenance
Upper Cretaceous Hiromine Formation
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