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Northeast Asian Climatic Change over the Last 140,000 Years Inferred from Pollen in Marine Cores Taken off the Pacific Coast of Japan

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Pollen analyses from deep-sea sediment cores V28-304, RC14-99, and RC12-401 provide continuous chronostratigraphic records of the regional vegetation of the Pacific coast of the Japanese archipelago over the last 140,000 years. These detailed pollen time series (with samples at ~2000-year intervals) monitor the changing composition of temperate and boreal montane forests prior to and through the last full glacial cycle. Except for brief intervals, as in the Holocene, conifers were more abundant than deciduous taxa; nonarboreal elements were even less significant in the vegetation of Japan. Pinus and Picea characterize glacial intervals, and Cryptomeria, along with Sciadopitys, dominates warm temperate forests of the central and southern coast between ~ 120,000 and ~70,000yr B.P. Precipitation and temperature indices derived from these pollen/vegetation assemblages show fluctuations related to changes in the northeast Asian summer and winter monsoon.

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Heusser, L.E. (1989). Northeast Asian Climatic Change over the Last 140,000 Years Inferred from Pollen in Marine Cores Taken off the Pacific Coast of Japan. In: Leinen, M., Sarnthein, M. (eds) Paleoclimatology and Paleometeorology: Modern and Past Patterns of Global Atmospheric Transport. NATO ASI Series, vol 282. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0995-3_28

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