High-resolution climate stratigraphy across the Matuyama-Brunhes transition from palynological data of Osaka Bay sediments in southwestern Japan

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 272, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 115-123

  Kitaba, Ikuko ^a   Iwabe, Chisa ^a   Hyodo, Masayuki ^a   Katoh, Shigehiro ^b   Matsushita, Mariko ^c  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MUSEUM OF NATURE AND HUMAN ACTIVITIES   (Japan)

^c Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties   (Japan)

Author keywords

Matuyama Brunhes transition; Osaka Bay sediments; Paleoclimate; Paleovegetation; Pollen analysis

Indexed keywords

BRUNHES CHRON; CONIFEROUS FOREST; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MARINE SEDIMENT; MATUYAMA CHRON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALYNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT CORE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION TYPE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; OSAKA BAY;

CRYPTOMERIA; CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA; CYCLOBALANOPSIS; FAGUS; LEPIDOBALANUS; QUERCUS;

EID: 58749094419     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.11.013     Document Type: Article

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