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This page provides official travel information about Shitahama Beach (Trace Fossils of Currents and Animal Tracks) and nearby attractions in the Kansai region of Japan.
【Description】
Trace fossils of currents and the tracks of large mammals have been among the finds discovered here amid the river and lake sediment (comprising alternating layers of conglomerate, sandstone and mudstone) that filled in a depression created along the border where the Japanese archipelago separated from mainland Asia in the Sea of Japan's early period of expansion.
This basic information is current at the time of publication and is subject to change.
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