Inverse grading of mud and sand is known in flood deposits in Japan (ISEYA, 1982), Many inversely graded beds are found out also in the Late Pleistocene fluvial deposits in Ibaraki Prefecture (MASUDA and ISEYA, 1985).
Recently we discovered inversely graded bed in the Lower Pleistocene alluvial fan sediments in the southern part of the Uji Hills. This inversely graded beds are intercalated in the upper part of the fining-upward sequence deposited on an abandoned fan lobe surface. This sequence is composed of gravels (facies A), trough cross-bedded sands (facies B), inversely graded beds (facies C), and bioturbated massive mud (facies D), in ascending order.
Facies C is deposited strongly affected by bed forms of facies B. It consists bioturbated thin alternations of mud and fine-grained sand, on the top of bars, whereas parallel-laminated medium-grained sands accumulate on the flat fluvial floor. Inversely graded beds develop thickest on the face of the bars inclining about 20-30 degrees and form laterally accreted depositional bodies.
Depositional sites of the inversely graded beds of the Lower Pleistocene Group can be better compared with slope and top of the bars of modern sandy low sinuosity rivers rather than flood plains. Bioturbated and vegetated marshland developed in the later stage, resulting from lateral accretional deposition of inversely graded beds.
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