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17-590: Higashimurayama is located on the eastern edge of the Sayama Hills, almost in the center of the Musashino Terrace . Most of the city area is flat, except for the northwestern hills. Tokyo Metropolis Saitama Prefecture Higashimurayama has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Higashimurayama

34-463: A distinct, flat, nearly level, or gently undulating surface. They often exhibit steep, cliff-like edges, known as escarpments , that separate them from surrounding lowlands. Depending on either their size, other physical characteristics, or geographic location, the landforms comprising a tableland are individually referred to by a number of names including either butte , mesa , plateau , potrero , tepui , or tuya . Table Mountains are also

51-667: A layer of loam formed from volcanic ash . The plateau is part of the Kantō Plain . It sits northwest of Tokyo Bay , in the southwest of the plain. Its northern section is in southern Saitama Prefecture . Much of Tokyo , between the Tama River to the south and the Arakawa River to the north, is built on the plateau. The Tama River carved the Okutama Mountains and deposited a large alluvial fan that spread out from Ōme . The fan

68-427: A type of tableland. A homologous landform under the sea is called either a tablemount or guyot . Sedimentary tablelands are tablelands that typically have developed from the erosion of coarse-grained, clastic, sedimentary rocks in the form of relatively flat-lying sandstones and conglomerates that have not been strongly deformed by tectonics . The primary control on the geomorphology of sedimentary tablelands

85-580: Is 14.0 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1647 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 25.7 °C, and lowest in January, at around 2.3 °C. Per Japanese census data, the population of Higashimurayama increased rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s and has plateaued in recent decades. The area of present-day Higashimurayama has been inhabited since Japanese Paleolithic times, and numerous remains from

102-481: Is not served by any national highways or expressways. The city has two public high schools operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education . Higashimurayama has 15 public elementary schools and seven public junior high schools operated by the city government. Public junior high schools: Public elementary school: There are also three private combined junior/senior high schools. Higashimurayama

119-517: Is the Tachikawa terrace, and the terrace one step higher than that (high surface) is the Musashino terrace. The other is in the north and is thought to be a remnant of the former Tama River channel. This article about a regional geological feature is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Table (landform) A tableland is an area containing elevated landforms characterized by

136-550: Is the base layer of the Musashino Plateau, and is covered by the Kantō Loam Formation, which is 5 to 15 meters thick. The loam is primarily andesite or basaltic sandy mud formed from volcanic ash that the wind carried west from Mount Fuji . Two types of developed fluvial terraces (river terraces) are found on the plateau. One is formed by the flow of the Tama River on the south side. The lowest terrace (low surface)

153-408: Is the dip of the layers of the sandstones, conglomerates, and associated sedimentary strata . Sedimentary tablelands only form if the dip of the sedimentary layers is negligible. If the sedimentary layers are tilted, although otherwise little deformed, asymmetric ridges known as cuestas develop. A really extensive sedimentary tablelands are often known as plateaus . As plateaus are dissected by

170-519: Is twinned with the following cities: Musashino Terrace The Musashino Plateau ( 武蔵野台地 , Musashino daichi ) , also translated from Japanese as Musashino Platform and also named Musashino Region , is a large tableland that sits between the Arakawa and Tama rivers in the Kantō region of Honshu , Japan . The plateau consists of an alluvial fan formed by the ancient Tama River, covered by

187-683: The Jōmon , Yayoi and Kofun periods have been discovered. During the Nara period , it became part of ancient Musashi Province . During the Kamakura period , it was the location of the Battle of Kumegawa in 1333. In the post- Meiji Restoration cadastral reform of April 1, 1889, several villages merged to form Higashimurayama Village in Kitatama District, at that time part of Kanagawa Prefecture . The entire district

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204-935: The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Tokyo 20th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Higashimurayama was formerly an agricultural area, and was noted for its production of sweet potatoes . It is now primary a regional commercial center, and a bedroom community for central Tokyo. [REDACTED] JR East – Musashino Line [REDACTED] Seibu Railway – Seibu Shinjuku Line [REDACTED] Seibu Railway – Seibu Haijima Line [REDACTED] Seibu Railway – Seibu Kokubunji Line [REDACTED] Seibu Railway – Seibu Tamako Line [REDACTED] Seibu Railway – Seibu Ikebukuro Line [REDACTED] Seibu Railway – Seibu Seibu-en Line [REDACTED] Seibu Railway – Seibu Yamaguchi Line Higashimurayama

221-459: The erosion of duricrusts are also quite common in parts of Australia and South America. In addition, the eruption of either lava or pyroclastic flows can deposit a solid surface layer of volcanic rock that is relatively flat. As in case of the duricrusts, the resulting lava or pyroclastic flows are sufficiently tough to form the flat-lying caprock of tablelands when breached and incised by rivers and streams. This article related to topography

238-412: The formation of a thick indurated surface layer duricrust by deep weathering beneath a relatively flat surface. Second, the breaching and incision of the duricrust layer by rivers or streams. Finally, the inward migration of valley walls and escarpments by slope erosion and denudation of mesas and buttes. An example of such tablelands is the laterite-capped Panchgani Tableland of India. Tablelands formed by

255-499: The headward erosion and incision of river and stream courses and the retreat of their bounding escarpments, plateaus are fragmented into tablelands of smaller and smaller extent known as mesas , buttes , or pinnacles . Further erosion eventually reduces these landforms to piles of bouderly rubble as known as rock labyrinths . The tepui of South America are a type of sedimentary tableland composed of erosional outliers of flat-lying Precambrian quartz arenite sandstone that tower over

272-426: The surrounding jungle underlain by crystalline basement rocks. Flat-lying, coarse-grained, clastic sedimentary rocks are not the only layered rocks that serve as the caprock that form the surface of tablelands. Flat-lying duricrusts and volcanic rocks also form the caprock of various tablelands. In case of duricrusts, e.g. laterite or silcrete , the formation of tablelands involves a three stage process. First,

289-449: Was transferred to the control of Tokyo Prefecture(東京府) on April 1, 1893. On April 1, 1942, Higashimurayama Village became the town of Higashimurayama. On April 1, 1964, Higashimurayama was elevated to city status. Higashimurayama has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 25 members. Higashimurayama, collectively with Higashiyamato and Musashimurayama, contributes three members to

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