New definition for the subdivision of the Holocene Epoch and climate

  • Hirabayashi S
  • Yokoyama Y
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Abstract

完新世の気候は,最終氷期に比べて安定で穏やかであるが,完新世にも数百年から千年スケールでの気候変動は起きている.特に,8.2kaと4.2kaに全球スケールで起きた急激な気候変動は完新世の気候変動イベントとして注目され,完新世を区分するためのイベントとして慣例的に使用されてきた.2018年7月13日に国際地質科学連合(IUGS)国際層序委員会(ICS)により,新たに国際年代層序表が発表され,完新統/完新世を,下部完新統/前期完新世,中部完新統/中期完新世,上部完新統/後期完新世に細分することを正式に決定した.本小論では,それらの区分の定義に使用された上記の気候イベントについてレビューを行う. / Recent studies have revealed that the Holocene climate was not stable, but has varied on a centennial-to-millennium scale. The abrupt global climate shifts that occurred in ~8.2 ka and ~4.2 ka had received much attention in the form of a tripartite subdivision of the Holocene, with the terms ‘Early’, ‘Middle’, and ‘Late’ Holocene applied in the Quaternary science literature routinely. On July 13, 2018, a tripartite division of the Holocene into the Greenlandian (Early Holocene), Northgrippian (Middle Holocene), and Meghalayan (Late Holocene) stages/ages was formally defined by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). Here we discuss briefly the new Holocene stages/ages and subseries/subepochs, and their associated climate changes.

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Hirabayashi, S., & Yokoyama, Y. (2020). New definition for the subdivision of the Holocene Epoch and climate. The Quaternary Research (Daiyonki-Kenkyu), 59(6), 129–157. https://doi.org/10.4116/jaqua.59.129

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