Importance and methods of macro-charcoal study to reconstruct fire history

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  • 火災史を考える上でのmacro-charcoal 研究の重要性と 分析方法
  • 火災史を考える上でのmacro-charcoal研究の重要性と分析方法--日本の火災史研究におけるその役割
  • カサイシ オ カンガエル ウエ デノ macro charcoal ケンキュウ ノ ジュウヨウセイ ト ブンセキ ホウホウ ニホン ノ カサイシ ケンキュウ ニ オケル ソノ ヤクワリ
  • its contribution to the study of Holocene fire history in Japan
  • 日本の火災史研究におけるその役割

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Charcoal fragments are derived from both natural and anthropogenic fires. Fire history has been studied by tracing charcoal abundance in sediments. Charcoal studies in Japan suggested that fires occurred frequently between the terminal Pleistocene and the early Holocene. Frequent fires in this period are considered to have disturbed vegetation. So far charcoal studies in Japan have examined mostly microscopic charcoal less than 100 μm in diameter, but macroscopic charcoal more than 100 μm in diameter has been examined recently. Macroscopic charcoal generally represents the local fire history. The macroscopic charcoal analysis minimizes charcoal breakdown in analytical procedures, facilitates charcoal identification from other fragments, and allows efficient analysis of sediments. This review introduces the methods of the macroscopic charcoal analysis, stressing the above merits of this analysis.

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