Palynology of a 250-m core from Lake Biwa: A 430,000-year record of glacial-interglacial vegetation change in Japan

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 267-283

  Miyoshi, Norio ^a   Fujiki, Toshiyuki ^b   Morita, Yoshimune ^c  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b National Institutes for the Humanities International Research Center for Japanese Studies   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glacial interglacial cycle; Holocene; Japan; Lake Biwa; Mid Upper Pleistocene; Vegetational history

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; PALYNOLOGY; QUATERNARY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

JAPAN;

BETULA; CRYPTOMERIA; CYCLOBALANOPSIS; FAGUS; SCIADOPITYS;

EID: 0032984790     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-6667(98)00058-X     Document Type: Article

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