Developing a Holocene tephrostratigraphy for northern Japan using the sedimentary record from Lake Kushu, Rebun Island

Palaeoclimate records in East Asia offer significant potential to further our understanding of monsoon dynamics and can serve as a link between North Atlantic and tropical climate systems. The sedimentary core from Lake Kushu, Rebun Island, provides the first high-resolution palaeoclimate record from northern Japan. In order for this regionally significant archive to be synchronised to other records, and to generate a more detailed Holocene...