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Pollen and Radiolarian Records from Deep-Sea Core RC14-103: Climatic Reconstructions of Northeast Japan and Northwest Pacific for the Last 90,000 Years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Linda E. Heusser  and
Joseph J. Morley
Linda E. Heusser
Affiliation:
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964
Joseph J. Morley
Affiliation:
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964
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Abstract

Using modern pollen and radiolarian distributions in sediments from the northwest Pacific and seas adjacent to Japan to interpret floral and faunal changes in core RC14-103 (44°02′N, 152°56′E), we recognize two major responses of the biota of eastern Hokkaido and the northwest Pacific to climatic changes since the last interglaciation. Relatively stable glacial environments (∼80,000–20,000 yr B.P.) were basically cold and wet (<4°C and ∼1000 mm mean annual temperature and precipitation, respectively) with boreal conijers and tundra/park-tundra on Hokkaido, and cool (<16°C) summer and cold (<1.0°C) winter surface temperatures offshore. Contrasting nonglacial environments (∼10,000–4000 yr B.P.) were warm and humid (>8°C and >1200 mm mean annual temperature and precipitation, respectively), supporting climax broadleaf deciduous forest with Quercus and Ulmus/Zelkova, with surface waters in the northwest Pacific characterized by warm (>1.5°C) winter and cold (10.4°–14.3°C) summer temperatures. Climatic evidence from RC14-103 shows a high degree of local and regional variation within the context of global climatic change. Correlative ocean and land records provide the detailed input necessary to assess local/regional responses to variations in other key elements (i.e., solar radiation, monsoonal variations) of the northeast Asian climate system.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , July 1985 , pp. 60 - 72
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University of Washington

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