Publications

The publications produced from the Suigetsu Varves SG06 and SG14 project are:

• Schlolaut et al. (2018) "An extended and revised Lake Suigetsu varve chronology from ∼50 to ∼10 ka BP based on detailed sediment micro-facies analyses". Quaternary Science Reviews 200, 351-366
• the SG06 2018 Varve Chronology is available here

• Albert et al. (2018) "Constraints on the frequency and dispersal of explosive eruptions at Sambe and Daisen volcanoes (South-West Japan Arc) from the distal Lake Suigetsu record (SG06 core)". Earth Science Reviews 184 (1), 1004-1028

• McLean et al. (2018) "Integrating the Holocene tephrostratigraphy for East Asia using a high-resolution cryptotephra study from Lake Suigetsu (SG14 core), central Japan". Quaternary Science Reviews 183, 36-58

• Schlolaut (2018) "The Varve Interpolation Program 3.0.0 - A unique and easy to use tool for incompletely varved sediments". Quaternary Geochronology 48 (1), 17-24

• Schlolaut et al. (2017) "Evidence for a bi-partition of the Younger Dryas Stadial in East Asia associated with inversed climate characteristics compared to Europe". Scientific Reports 7, 44983

• McLean et al. (2016) "Identification of the Changbaishan ‘Millennium’ (B-Tm) eruption deposit in the Lake Suigetsu (SG06) sedimentary archive, Japan: Synchronisation of hemispheric-wide palaeoclimate archives". Quaternary Science Reviews 150 (1), 301-307 (Open access)

• Nakagawa and Suigetsu 2006 project members (2014) "High-precision sampling of laminated sediments: strategies from Lake Suigetsu". PAGES News 22 (1), 12-13

• Pearson et al. (2014) "Ultrahigh resolution total organic carbon analysis using Fourier Transform Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (FT-NIRS)". Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 15 (1), 292-301

• Schlolaut et al. (2014) "Event layers in the Japanese Lake Suigetsu 'SG06' sediment core: description, interpretation and climatic implications". Quaternary Science Reviews 83, 157-170

• Demske et al. (2013) "Atlas of pollen, spores and further non-pollen palynomorphs recorded in the glacial-interglacial late Quaternary sediments of Lake Suigetsu, central Japan". Quaternary International 290-291, 164-238

• Nakagawa et al. (2013) "A standard sample method for controlling microfossil data precision: a proposal for higher data quality and greater opportunities for collaboration". Quaternary International 290-291, 239-244

• Saito-Kato et al. (2013) "An assessment of the magnitude of the AD 1586 Tensho Tsunami inferred from Lake Suigetsu sediment cores". Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi) 122 (3), 493-501 (in Japanese, with English abstract)

• Smith et al. (2013) "Identification and correlation of visible tephras in the Lake Suigetsu SG06 sedimentary archive, Japan: chronostratigraphic markers for synchronising of east Asian/west Pacific palaeoclimatic records across the last 150 ka". Quaternary Science Reviews 67, 121-137

• Staff et al. (2013a) "The multiple chronological techniques applied to the Lake Suigetsu SG06 sediment core, central Japan". Boreas 42 (2), 259-266

• Staff et al. (2013b) "Integration of the old and new Lake Suigetsu (Japan) terrestrial radiocarbon calibration data sets". Radiocarbon 55 (4), 2049-2058

• Bronk Ramsey et al. (2012) "A complete terrestrial radiocarbon record for 11.2 to 52.8 kyr B.P.". Science 338 (6105), 370-374:
• free access to the article, provided by Science, available here: abstract, reprint (PDF), full text
• see also the accompanying 'Perspective' piece: Reimer (2012) "Refining the radiocarbon time scale". Science 338 (6105), 337-338 (summary, reprint (PDF), full text)
• the paper is further cited in the 'Research highlights' of Nature 490 (7421), 449 ("A more accurate carbon clock")
• links to additional scientific and popular scientific press citations of this work are available on the Suigetsu 'News' page
• the radiocarbon calibration dataset is also available here, both as an Excel spreadsheet and as a .14c file (5-point average data, including Δ¹⁴C)

• Marshall et al. (2012) "A novel approach to varve counting using μXRF and X-radiography in combination with thin-section microscopy, applied to the Late Glacial chronology from Lake Suigetsu, Japan". Quaternary Geochronology 13, 70-80

• Nakagawa and Suigetsu 2006 project members (2012) "Lake Suigetsu 2006 Varved Sediment Core Project". PAGES News 20 (2), 70-71

• Nakagawa et al. (2012) "SG06, a fully continuous and varved sediment core from Lake Suigetsu, Japan: stratigraphy and potential for improving the radiocarbon calibration model and understanding of late Quaternary climate changes". Quaternary Science Reviews 36, 164-176

• Schlolaut et al. (2012) "An automated method for varve interpolation and its application to the Late Glacial chronology from Lake Suigetsu, Japan". Quaternary Geochronology 13, 52-69

• Kossler et al. (2011) "Onset and termination of the late-glacial climate reversal in the high-resolution diatom and sedimentary records from the annually laminated SG06 core from Lake Suigetsu, Japan". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 306 (3-4), 103-115

• Smith et al. (2011) "Toward establishing precise ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar chronologies for Late Pleistocene palaeoclimate archives: an example from the Lake Suigetsu (Japan) sedimentary record". Quaternary Science Reviews 30 (21-22), 2845-2850

• Staff et al. (2011) "New ¹⁴C determinations from Lake Suigetsu, Japan: 12,000 to 0 cal BP". Radiocarbon 53 (3), 511-528

• Bronk Ramsey et al. (2010) "Developments in the calibration and modeling of radiocarbon dates". Radiocarbon 52 (3), 953-961

• Staff et al. (2010) "A re-analysis of the Lake Suigetsu terrestrial radiocarbon calibration dataset". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 268, 960-965

• Tyler et al. (2010) "Tracking aquatic change using chlorin‐specific carbon and nitrogen isotopes: The last glacial‐interglacial transition at Lake Suigetsu, Japan". Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 11, Q09010

• Francus et al. (2009) "High-resolution X-ray fluorescence core scanning: applications in paleolimnology". PAGES Newsletter 17 (3), 93-96

Another important publication cites the Lake Suigetsu sediment profile as an "auxiliary stratotype" for the onset of the present interglacial, the Holocene:

• Walker et al. (2009) "Formal definition and dating of the GSSP (Global Stratotype Section and Point) for the base of the Holocene using the Greenland NGRIP ice core, and selected auxiliary records". Journal of Quaternary Science 24 (1), 3-17

And a further publication, produced by several Suigetsu Varves 2006 project members, as well as external collaborators, describes the reference dataset for pollen-based climate reconstruction, which will be subsequently applied to the Lake Suigetsu dataset in future publications:

• Tarasov et al. (2011) "Progress in the reconstruction of Quaternary climate dynamics in the Northwest Pacific: a new modern analogue reference dataset and its application to the 430-kyr pollen record from Lake Biwa". Earth-Science Reviews 108 (1-2), 64-79

The Suigetsu radiocarbon data have now been incorporated into the updated international consensus radiocarbon calibration curve, "IntCal13":

• Reimer et al. (2013) "IntCal13 and Marine13 radiocarbon age calibration curves 0-50,000 years cal BP". Radiocarbon 55 (4), 1869-1887

"Suigetsu Varves 2006" project members have additionally presented aspects of our work at national and international conferences. These presentations include:

• Bronk Ramsey et al. (2013) "Integration of long-term timescales using terrestrial radiocarbon: an example from Lake Suigetsu, Japan" (oral presentation). QRA Annual Discussion Meeting, Newcastle, UK (January 2013)

• Nakagawa et al. (2013) "Robust correlation among Lake Suigetsu, NGRIP, EDC and Hulu archives and spatio-temporal structure of abrupt warming events" (oral presentation). QRA Annual Discussion Meeting, Newcastle, UK (January 2013)

• Pearson et al. (2013) "Deciphering timings and rates of abrupt climatic changes over the Lateglacial-Holocene period: the Suigetsu biomarker record" (poster presentation). QRA Annual Discussion Meeting, Newcastle, UK (January 2013)

• Staff et al. (2013) "Long distance identification of leads and lags in climatic change by way of direct terrestrial radiocarbon comparison" (oral presentation). QRA Annual Discussion Meeting, Newcastle, UK (January 2013)

• Bronk Ramsey et al. (2012a) "'Oh no, not another timescale...': the view from Lake Suigetsu, Japan" (oral presentation). INTIMATE Workshop, De Lutte, The Netherlands (March 2012)

• Bronk Ramsey et al. (2012b) "Implications of the 55ka atmospheric radiocarbon record from Lake Suigetsu, Japan" (oral presentation). 21st International Radiocarbon Conference, Paris, France (July 2012)

• Smith et al. (2012) "Toward establishing precise chronologies for the integration of Late Pleistocene palaeoclimate archives: an example from Suigetsu SG06, Japan" (poster presentation). INTIMATE Workshop, De Lutte, The Netherlands (March 2012)

• Staff et al. (2012a) "Generation of the Lake Suigetsu (central Japan) terrestrial radiocarbon calibration dataset" (poster presentation). INTIMATE Workshop, De Lutte, The Netherlands (March 2012)

• Staff et al. (2012b) "Integration of the old and new Lake Suigetsu (Japan) terrestrial radiocarbon calibration datasets" (poster presentation). 21st International Radiocarbon Conference, Paris, France (July 2012)

• Bronk Ramsey et al. (2011a) "Implications of the Late Glacial terrestrial radiocarbon calibration dataset from Lake Suigetsu, Japan" (oral presentation). INTIMATE Meeting, Potsdam, Germany (February 2011)

• Bronk Ramsey et al. (2011b) "Assessing the importance of terrestrial radiocarbon archives for the glacial period: implications of the Suigetsu (SG06) radiocarbon record" (poster presentation). 18th INQUA Congress, Bern, Switzerland (July 2011)

• Kossler et al. (2011) "Onset and termination of the Late-glacial climate reversal in the diatom records from the annually laminated SG06 core from Lake Suigetsu, Japan" (poster presentation). 18th INQUA Congress, Bern, Switzerland (July 2011)

• Nagashima et al. (2011) "Last glacial to Holocene variations of the westerly jet path based on aeolian dust in Japan Sea sediments and SG06 core from Lake Suigetsu" (poster presentation). 18th INQUA Congress, Bern, Switzerland (July 2011)

• Nakagawa (2011) "Much Faster Counting! (PolyCounter 2.7 and Multi Function Panel)" (poster presentation). 18th INQUA Congress, Bern, Switzerland (July 2011)

• Nakagawa et al. (2011a) "SG06 (Lake Suigetsu) Updates -Coming Attractions-" (oral presentation). INTIMATE Meeting, Potsdam, Germany (February 2011)

• Nakagawa et al. (2011b) "Lake Suigetsu 2006 varved sediment project (SG06): outline and important early outputs" (oral presentation). 18th INQUA Congress, Bern, Switzerland (July 2011)

• Nakagawa et al. (2011c) "Late Glacial to early Holocene pollen stratigraphy of the SG06 Core from Lake Suigetsu, Japan" (poster presentation). 18th INQUA Congress, Bern, Switzerland (July 2011)

• Pearson et al. (2011) "Deciphering timings and rates of abrupt climate changes over the Lateglacial-Holocene period: the Lake Suigetsu biomarker record" (poster presentation). 18th INQUA Congress, Bern, Switzerland (July 2011)

• Schlolaut et al. (2011a) "Suigetsu Varves 2006: a novel approach to automated varve interpolation" (poster presentation). INTIMATE Meeting, Potsdam, Germany (February 2011)

• Schlolaut et al. (2011b) "The Late Glacial in Japan: micro-facies analyses of the Lake Suigetsu sediments and palaeoenvironmental implications" (poster presentation). 18th INQUA Congress, Bern, Switzerland (July 2011)

• Smith et al. (2011a) "Preliminary tephrostratigraphy of the Lake Suigetsu SG06 core, Japan" (oral presentation). INTIMATE Meeting, Potsdam, Germany (February 2011)

• Smith et al. (2011b) "Toward establishing precise chronologies for the integration of Late Pleistocene palaeoclimate archives: an example from Suigetsu SG06, Japan" (oral presentation). Goldschmidt Conference 2011, Prague, Czech Republic (August 2011)

• Staff et al. (2011a) "Potential implications of the terrestrial radiocarbon calibration dataset from Lake Suigetsu, Japan" (oral presentation). Radiocarbon and Archaeology, 6th International Symposium, Paphos, Cyprus (April 2011)

• Staff et al. (2011b) "The ‘Suigetsu Varves 2006’ terrestrial radiocarbon calibration dataset" (oral presentation). 18th INQUA Congress, Bern, Switzerland (July 2011)

• Tyler et al. (2011) "Orbital and millennial scale monsoonal variability over the last glacial-interglacial cycle: the organic carbon record from Lake Suigetsu, Japan" (poster presentation). 18th INQUA Congress, Bern, Switzerland (July 2011)

• Marshall et al. (2010) "Suigetsu Varves 2006: utilising microXRF and X-radiography for varve counting" (oral presentation). 1st Workshop of the PAGES Varves Working Group, Palmse, Estonia (April 2010)

• Nakagawa et al. (2010) "Suigetsu Varves 2006" project and high precision tephrochronology in and around Japan" (oral presentation). International Field Conference and Workshop on Tephrochronology, Volcanism and Human Activity, Kirishima, Japan (May 2010)

• Schlolaut et al. (2010a) "Suigetsu Varves 2006: an automated algorithm for varve interpolation" (poster presentation). 1st Workshop of the PAGES Varves Working Group, Palmse, Estonia (April 2010)

• Schlolaut et al. (2010b) "The Late Glacial chronology from Lake Suigestu: a new approach to varve interpolation using frequency distributions of annual sub-layers" (oral presentation). EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria (May 2010)

• Smith et al. (2010) "Xenocrysts and antecrysts and their effect on the precision of ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dates of explosive volcanic eruptions" (oral presentation). AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA (December 2010)

• Bronk Ramsey et al. (2009a) "The implications of the Lake Suigetsu radiocarbon record for pre-Holocene radiocarbon calibration" (oral presentation). QRA Annual Discussion Meeting, Oxford, UK (January 2009)

• Bronk Ramsey et al. (2009b) "Developments in the calibration and modelling of radiocarbon dates" (oral presentation). 20th International Radiocarbon Conference, Hawai'i, USA (May-June 2009)

• Marshall et al. (2009) "Suigetsu Varves 2006: varve counting by XRF core scanning" (poster presentation). QRA Annual Discussion Meeting, Oxford, UK (January 2009)

• Nakagawa et al. (2009) "Lake Suigetsu 2006 varved sediment project - towards a purely terrestrial radiocarbon calibration model" (oral presentation). AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA (December 2009)

• Pearson et al. (2009) "Organic geochemical evidence for climate changes over the Lateglacial-Holocene in Lake Suigetsu, Japan" (poster presentation). AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA (December 2009)

• Schlolaut, Marshall et al. (2009) "Lake Suigetsu 2006 - a novel approach to varve counting: combining thin section microscopy and microXRF and radiography" (poster presentation). 20th International Radiocarbon Conference, Hawai'i, USA (May-June 2009)

• Staff et al. (2009) "Suigetsu 2006: a wholly terrestrial radiocarbon calibration curve" (oral presentation). 20th International Radiocarbon Conference, Hawai'i, USA (May-June 2009)

• Bronk Ramsey et al. (2008) "Suigetsu-2006: preliminary AMS radiocarbon results and age-depth model" (poster presentation). AMS 11 Conference, Rome, Italy (September 2008)

• Nakagawa et al. (2008) "Lake Suigetsu SG06 sediment core: project outline, some early (but significant) results and near future perspectives" (oral presentation). INTIMATE Meeting, Oxford, UK (September 2008)

• Staff et al. (2008) "A re-analysis of the Lake Suigetsu terrestrial radiocarbon calibration dataset" (oral presentation). AMS 11 Conference, Rome, Italy (September 2008)

• Tyler et al. (2008) "Late Glacial environmental change at Lake Suigetsu, central Japan: preliminary evidence from bulk organic and compound specific isotope geochemistry" (poster presentation). AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA (December 2008)

• Inoue et al. (2007) "Image processing for continuous digital bore-hole core images from Lake Suigetsu, Japan" (poster presentation). 17th INQUA Congress, Cairns, Australia (July-August 2007)

• Nakagawa (2007a) "Double-L channel: an amazingly non-destructive method of continuous sub-sampling from sediment cores" (poster presentation). 17th INQUA Congress, Cairns, Australia (July-August 2007)

• Nakagawa (2007b) "PolyCounter ver.1.0 and Ergodex DX-1: a cheap and very ergonomic electronic counter board system" (poster presentation). 17th INQUA Congress, Cairns, Australia (July-August 2007)

• Nakagawa et al. (2007) "Synchronous Holocene onset between the North Atlantic and Japan (Suigetsu updates following IntCal04)" (poster presentation). 17th INQUA Congress, Cairns, Australia (July-August 2007)

A series of papers pertaining to the original coring of Lake Suigetsu (the "Suigetsu 1993" project) and the use of this sedimentary record for radiocarbon calibration purposes are provided by Kitagawa and co-workers:

• Kitagawa and van der Plicht (2000) "Atmospheric radiocarbon calibration beyond 11,900 cal BP from Lake Suigetsu laminated sediments". Radiocarbon 42 (3), 369-380

• Kitagawa and van der Plicht (1998b) "A 40,000-year varve chronology from Lake Suigetsu, Japan: extension of the ¹⁴C calibration curve". Radiocarbon 40 (1), 505-515

• Kitagawa and van der Plicht (1998a) "Atmospheric radiocarbon calibration to 45,000 yr B.P.: Late Glacial fluctuations and cosmogenic isotope production". Science 279, 1187-1190

• Kitagawa et al. (1995) "AMS ¹⁴C dating of varved sediments from Lake Suigetsu, central Japan and atmospheric ¹⁴C change during the Late Pleistocene". Radiocarbon 37 (2), 371-378

• Takemura et al. (1994) "Sedimentary facies and chronology of core samples from Lake Mikata, Lake Suigetsu and Kurota Lowland, central Japan – sedimentary environment in Mikata Lowland since the last interglacial time". Journal of Geography 103 (3), 233-242 (in Japanese, with English abstract)

Palaeoenvironmental papers from the 1993 project include:

• Katsuta et al. (2007) "Advanced micro-XRF method to separate sedimentary rhythms and event layers in sediments: its application to lacustrine sediment from Lake Suigetsu, Japan". Journal of Paleolimnology 37, 259-271

• Nakagawa et al. (2006) "Seasonally specific responses of the East Asian monsoon to deglacial climate changes". Geology 34 (7), 521-524

• Tanimura et al. (2006) "Cytoplasmic masses preserved in early Holocene diatoms: a possible taphonomic process and its paleo-ecological implications". Journal of Phycology 42 (2), 270-279

• Nakagawa et al. (2005) "Pollen/event stratigraphy of the varved sediment of Lake Suigetsu, central Japan from 15,701 to 10,217 SG vyr BP (Suigetsu varve years before present): Description, interpretation, and correlation with other regions". Quaternary Science Reviews 24, 1691-1701

• Kato et al. (2004) "Survival strategy of diatom species living on now-depositing non-glacial varves". Quaternary International 123-125, 21-26

• Yasuda et al. (2004) "Environmental variability and human adaptation during the Lateglacial/Holocene transition in Japan with reference to pollen analysis of the SG4 core from Lake Suigetsu". Quaternary International 123-125, 11-19

• Kato et al. (2003) "Intraspecific variation during the life cycle of a modern Stephanodiscus species (Bacillariophyceae) inferred from the fossil record of Lake Suigetsu, Japan". Phycologia 42 (3), 292-300

• Nakagawa et al. (2003) "Asynchronous climate changes in the North Atlantic and Japan during the Last Termination". Science 299, 688-691

• Kawakami et al. (1996) "A new opportunity to detect paleo-earthquake events dating back to the past 10 millennia: a record from lacustrine sediment". Engineering Geology 43, 177-188