PROGRAM BOOK XIX INQUA CONGRESS Quaternary Perspectives on Climate Change, Natural Hazards and Civilization at Nagoya Congress Center Nagoya, JAPAN 26 July – 2 August 2015 INQUA Science Council of Japan Japan Association for Quaternary Research International Union for Quaternary Research Table of Contents Welcome Addresses ...................................................................... 1 Organizing Committee ................................................................... 3 Supporting Organizations .............................................................. 6 General Information ....................................................................... 9 Guidelines for Presenters ............................................................ 12 INQUA Medal Awards ................................................................. 13 Plenary Lectures .......................................................................... 17 Conference Venue Maps ............................................................. 26 Event Hall: Exhibitors and Booths ............................................... 28 Event Hall: Poster Session Map .................................................. 29 Business Meeting Schedule ........................................................ 31 Session List ................................................................................. 32 Oral Presentation Program .......................................................... 39 Poster Presentation Program .................................................... 107 Index of Authors ........................................................................ 155 XIX INQUA 2015 in Nagoya President's Welcome Dear Fellow Congress Attendees and interesting facts. Your Executive Committee International Council Delegates, is committed to improving communication The Local Organizing Committee has so everyone feels more a part of the INQUA done a fine job of arranging this Congress family. Please take advantage of our efforts. and for this we thank them. I know that you Your National Delegate, who will be are all eager to meet colleagues and learn representing you at the International what everyone has been doing over the last Council meetings, also needs to hear from four years. Please also give a thought to you. Please contact him or her, if you have discovering what is new in areas with which not done so before, if you have matters you you are less familiar. INQUA is famous for wish to raise. They can only work on your being a multi-disciplinary organisation, behalf if they know what you want or need. which gives us all the chance to expand our Finally, INQUA has so much more to offer horizons, so attend sessions on subjects than a four-yearly Congress, important about which you know little or nothing. You though that is. Take this opportunity to may be very surprised and inspired! talk to Executive and Commission officers I also urge you to attend some of to find out how to become involved and the business meetings that could have benefit during the inter-Congress periods. unexpected advantages for you. First, the five Commissions responsible for overseeing Best wishes, and facilitating Quaternary science hold business meetings during the Congress. If you attend one or more of these meetings you will learn more about the work of the Commissions, which is aimed at benefitting you, and you could perhaps become involved in that work. For those of you who are Early Career Researchers (ECRs), it will definitely be to your advantage to attend any gatherings this group has. The ECR Committee is increasingly active, both in supporting other young Quaternary scientists and in helping with the work of running INQUA. Margaret Avery Do join this is a self-help group, which aims INQUA President to involve all who are in this category. Many people think General Assemblies at the beginning and end of the Congress are boring but you could learn some useful and - 1 - XIX INQUA 2015 in Nagoya LOC Chair's Welcome Dear Congress Participants: projections on future climate, sea level, and the environment, 3) Dynamics of human– Welcome to Nagoya and Japan. environment interaction, and 4) Developing On behalf of the Local Organizing and integrating new technologies for Committee, I am pleased to welcome you to Quaternary chronology and stratigraphy. the XIX International Union for Quaternary I am convinced that the wide range of Research (INQUA) Congress. scientific topics to be covered during the The XIX INQUA Congress is the first Congress expresses the broad interests Congress to be held in Japan and the second and activities of the participants, and will in Asia after the Beijing Congress in 1991. provide stimulation for future research and It is our great pleasure and honor to host international collaboration. the INQUA Congress here in Japan. The The City of Nagoya is located at the Congress has been co-organized by three center of the Japanese Islands and has a main organizations: INQUA (International long history. Nagoya and its surroundings Union for Quaternary Research), JaQUA host many historic properties, old temples (Japan Association for Quaternary Re- and castles, and also many museums on search), and the Science Council of Japan. science, art and natural history, as well as The Congress is sponsored and supported modern automobile and ceramic factories. I by many societies, institutions, companies hope you will enjoy the varied cultural and and individuals. We extend our sincere natural landscapes and geology during our gratitude to all those who have contributed excursions, and during your stay in Japan. towards the success of the Congress. Finally, on behalf of the Local The Congress brings together more Organizing Committee, I wish you an than 1,800 participants from 70 countries enjoyable, fruitful and exciting time at the and regions from all over the world. More XIX INQUA Congress in Nagoya. Please than 2,000 papers will be presented at the enjoy Japanese culture, food, and nature. Congress. This will be the second largest Congress after the last Bern Congress in terms of the number of participants and papers. The Congress theme “Quaternary Perspectives on Climate Change, Natural Hazards and Civilization” expresses our challenge towards disaster risk reduction and a sustainable world from the per- spective of Quaternary science. We have four sub-themes, which are 1) Quaternary science for natural hazard mitigation, Yoshiki Saito 2) Understanding and quantifying past Chair, The Local Organizing Committee changes in the Earth system for improving of the XIX INQUA Congress - 2 - XIX INQUA 2015 in Nagoya Organizing Committee of the XIX Congress of the Ineternaional Union for Quaternary Research Chairperson Yoshiki SAITO [Geological Survey of Japan / AIST] Honorary Chairperson Arata SUGIMURA [INQUA Honorary Life Fellow] Vice Chairpersons Kunihiko ENDO [Nihon University (Professor Emeritus)] Koji OKUMURA [Hiroshima University] Secretary General Takashi AZUMA [Geological Survey of Japan / AIST] Scientific Program Committee Chair: Allan Chivas (INQUA Executive Committee Member) (Australia) Roland Gehrels (President, Coastal and Marine Processes) [CMP] (UK) Sandy Harrison (President, Palaeoclimate) [PALCOMM] (Australia) Nicki Whitehouse (President, Humans and Biosphere) [HaBCom] (UK) Philip Gibbard (President, Stratigraphy and Chronology) [SACCOM] (UK) Alessandro Maria Michetti (President, Terrestrial Processes, Deposits and History) [TERPRO] (Italy) Akira Ono (Japan) Yusuke Yokoyama (Japan) PAGES & International Affairs Committee Chair: Yusuke YOKOYAMA [University of Tokyo] Field Excursion Committee Chair: Takehiko SUZUKI [Tokyo Metropolitan University] Muneki MITAMURA [Osaka City University] Kazuaki HORI [Nagoya University] Publicity Committee Chair: Masayuki HYODO [Kobe University] Takahiro MIYAUCHI [Chiba University] - 3 - XIX INQUA 2015 in Nagoya Finance Committee Chair: Shuji MATSU’URA [Ochanomizu University] Megumi KONDO [Ochanomizu University] QR Host Committee Chair: Makiko WATANABE [Tokyo Metropolitan University] Sadao TAKAOKA [Senshu University] Funding Committee Chair: Keiji TAKEMURA [Kyoto University] Haruo YAMAZAKI [Tokyo Metropolitan University] Takeshi MAKINOUCHI [Meijo University] Koji OKUMURA [Hiroshima University] Publication Committee Chair: Masami IZUHO [Tokyo Metropolitan University] Toru TAMURA [Geological Survey of Japan / AIST] Seiji KADOWAKI [Nagoya University] Nagoya Local Organizing Committee Chair: Toshio NAKAMURA [Nagoya University] Kazuaki HORI [Nagoya University] Isamu TOYOKURA [Geo-TOYOKURA PE Office] Seiji KADOWAKI [Nagoya University] Masataka HAKOZAKI [Nagoya University] Takahiro WATANABE [Japan Atomic Energy Agency] Fumiko WATANABE NARA [Nagoya University] Hiroshi NISHIMOTO [Aichi University] Yuichi MORI [Kinjo Gakuin University] Takeshi SAITO [Meijo University] Masatomo UMITSU [Nara University] Takeshi MAKINOUCHI [Meijo University] Yoshinari KAWAMURA [Aichi University of Education] Nagataka KATSUTA [Gifu University] Hiroyuki KITAGAWA [Nagoya University] Kiyoshi FUJIMOTO [Nanzan University] Satoru KOJIMA [Gifu University] Takeshi NAKATSUKA [Research Institute for Humanity and Nature] - 4 - XIX INQUA 2015 in Nagoya Secretariat Takashi AZUMA [Geological Survey of Japan / AIST] Ken IKEHARA [Geological Survey of Japan / AIST] Takeyuki UEKI [Chiba Institute of Science] Reisuke KONDO [Kogakkan University] Osamu FUJIWARA [Geological Survey of Japan / AIST] Toru TAMURA [Geological Survey of Japan / AIST] Junko NIKKAWA [M&J International] JTB