Coastal Landform Evolution and Environmental Changein the Late Holocene

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This research aims to clarify the late Holocene coastal landform evolution in relation to environmental change especially sea-level change, sediment supply and human impact. Field research were done in whole Japan (Koike, Matsubara) Hokkaido (Ohira) , Shizuoka (Matsubara), Aichi, Mie (Umitsu, Kawase), Okinawa (Hasegawa, Fujimoto) prefectures and Thailand (Fujimoto, Umitsu) and so on. Detail land form evolution was studied in the Tokachi-gawa and Kumozu-gawa lowlands and clarifeid the change of paleo-coastlines. Coastal change and land form evolution was also studied in the Chao Phraya delta, Thailand and Shoalhaven Lowland, Australia. These researches clarified the detail coastal land form evolution in relation to the sediment supply and sea-level change. These relationships werenot well clarified in the former studies. Coral breaching in the Ishigaki Island, Okinawa was studied by Hasagawa, and clarified that the phenomenon relates to the seasonal change of temperature and human activities especially change of land use. Late Holocene sea-level change and carbon concentration in the coastal lowland of Okinawa and Thailand were studied by Fujimoto, and discussed the minor sea-level fluctuation and mangrove peat formation. He clarified that the carbon concentration in the subsurface sediment including mangrove peat is largerthan the trunk and leaf parts. Characteristics of the Japanese coastal land forms were summarized by Koike. Matsubara also discussed on the evolution of Japanese coastal barriers.