Pollen records from the annually laminated sediment sequence in Lake Suigetsu, Japan, suggest a sequence of climate changes during the Last Termination that resembles that of the North Atlantic region but with noticeable differences in timing. An interstadial interval commenced a few centuries earlier [∼15,000 years before the present (yr B.P.)] than the North Atlantic GI-1 (Bölling) event. Conversely, the onset of a Younger Dryas (YD)-like cold reversal (12,300 to 11,250 yr B.P.) postdated the North Atlantic GS-1 (YD) event by a few centuries. Climate in the Far East during the Last Termination reflected solar insolation changes as much as Atlantic influences.
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Nakagawa, T., Kitagawa, H., Yasuda, Y., Tarasov, P. E., Nishida, K., Gotanda, K., & Sawai, Y. (2003). Asynchronous climate changes in the North Atlantic and Japan during the last termination. Science, 299(5607), 688–691. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1078235
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