MIS11-19 pollen stratigraphy from the 250-m Choshi core, northeast Boso Peninsula, central Japan: Implications for the early/mid-Brunhes (400-780 ka) climate signals

Island Arc

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 338-354

  Okuda, Masaaki ^a   Nakazato, Hiroomi ^b   Miyoshi, Norio ^c   Nakagawa, Takeshi ^d   Okazaki, Hiroko ^a   Saito, Saneatsu ^e   Taira, Asahiko ^e  

^a NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RURAL ENGINEERING   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boso Peninsula; Cryptomeria Picea ratio; Inubo Group; Ks11; Middle Pleistocene; Paleoclimate; Palynology; Temperate boreal conifer ratio

Indexed keywords

BRUNHES CHRON; CLIMATE SIGNAL; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MATUYAMA CHRON; PALYNOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

ASIA; BOSO PENINSULA; CHIBA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO;

CEPHALOTAXACEAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; CRYPTOMERIA; CUPRESSACEAE; PICEA ABIES; SCIADOPITYS; TAXACEAE; TSUGA;

EID: 33747424062     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: 14401738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2006.00533.x     Document Type: Article

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