Abstract
Surface core sediments obtained from Lake Onuma, Hokkaido, were used to reconstruct hydro-environmental changes during the past 100 years. The physical properties of lacustrine sediments record both physical environmental and artificial changes in the lake-catchment system.
Fluctuations in the mineral content and density of the core sediment indicate an increase of sediment discharge from 1950 to 1970. This may be related to land transformations such as land reclamation for agricultural use and the construction of resort areas in the catchment. The relationship between observed river discharge and precipitation near the Lake Onuma system is different in summer and winter. This indicates that the earth-surface processes in snowfall areas are different for the summer period (rainfall) and winter period (snow accumulation/snowmelt).
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Acknowledgement
We thank Prof. Y. Ganzawa, Prof. K. Tanaka, Hokkaido University of Education, and Dr. K. Fukushi, Kanazawa University, for helping us obtain the core samples, Mr. B. Enkbayar, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, for assistance in the experiment concerning the density for the ON11-2-1 core, Hakodate Observatory for providing us with the meteorological data from Mori Observatory, Hakodate Marine Observatory and Onuma Observatory, Hokkaido Electric Power Company for providing us with the data on discharge in Lake Onuma, and Mori Town and Mori Library for providing us a history book and information about Mori Town. We also thank Dr. N. Hasebe and our colleagues in the limno-geomorphological laboratory at Kanazawa University for their support of this study. I thank the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists for support of my study.
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Itono, T., Kashiwaya, K., Ochiai, S. (2015). Reconstructing Modern Hydro-Environmental Fluctuations Inferred from Lacustrine Sediment in Lake Onuma, Hokkaido. In: Kashiwaya, K., Shen, J., Kim, J. (eds) Earth Surface Processes and Environmental Changes in East Asia. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55540-7_14
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