Publications

Published Journal Articles (also see Poster Presentations). 

  1. McLean, D., Albert, P. G., Vineberg, S., Kaneko, K., Staff, R. A., Suzuki, T., Kimura, J-I., Chang, Q., Manning, C. J., SG14 Project Members, Nakagawa, T., Smith, V. C. Accepted with minor revisions. The Aso-3 caldera-forming occurred at the transition between Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 6 and 5(e). Accepted with minor revisions. for the Journal of Quaternary Science. Available on request.
  2. Franke, A., Tyler, J., Staff, R. A., McLean, D., Ikehara, M., Yokoyama, Y., Nowinski, V., Nakagawa, T. Orbital-scale East Asian Monsoon variability since the last interglacial inferred from the sediments of Lake Suigetsu, Japan. (2025). Quaternary Science Reviews.
  3. Horn, E. L., McLean D., Pimentel, A., Pacheco, J., Aguiar, S., Manning, C., CAVES Project Team, Barton, N., Smith V. (2025) Geochemical characterisation of major silicic eruptions from the Azores in the last 100 kyrs. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.
  4. Vineberg, S. O. Albert, P. G., McLean, D., Suzuki, T., Miyabuchi, Y., Hoshizumi, H., M. Buckland, H. M., Jones, G., Nishizawa, F., Staff, R. A., Yamada, K., Kitaba, I., Kitagawa, J., Manning, C. J., SG14 Project Members, Nakagawa, T., Smith, V. C. (2025). Revealing the timing and dispersal of large explosive eruptions at Aso volcano (Japan) by integrating proximal and distal tephra records over the last 130 kyrs. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.
  5. McLean, D., Horn, E. L., Aguiar, S., Barton, N., Brown, R., Carolin, S., Day, C., Kuhlmann, H., Kutterolf, S., Mitsunaga, B., O’Mara, N. A., Pacheco, J. M., Pimentel, A., Ramalho, R. S., Schindlbeck‑Belo, J. C., Stoetzel, E., Styring, A., Uno, K. T., Vidyarthi, V., Xu, Y., & Smith, V. C. (2024). Opportunities to synchronise and date archaeological and climate records in Northwest Africa using volcanic ash (tephra) layers. Libyan Studies, 55, 48‑68. https://doi.org/10.1017/lis.2024.18
  6. Vineberg, S.O., Albert, P.G., McLean, D., Suzuki, T., Staff, R.A., Yamada, K., Kitaba, I., Kitagawa, J., Manning, C.J., Buckland, H.M. and Jones, G., 2024. A detailed record of large explosive eruptions from Japan between∼ 120 and 50 ka preserved at Lake Suigetsu. Quaternary Science Reviews, 346, p.109021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109021
  7. Costa, A., Mingari, L., Smith, V. C., Macedonio, G., McLean, D., Folch, A., Lee, J., Yun, S-H. (2024). Eruption plumes extended more than 30 km in altitude in both phases of the Millennium eruption of Paektu (Changbaishan) volcano. Nature Communications Earth and Environment. 5: 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01162-0
  8. Albert, P. G., McLean, D., Buckland, H., Suzuki, T., Jones, G., Staff, R. A.,., Kibata, I., Yamada, K., Moriwaki, H., Ishimura, D., Ikehara, K., Manning, C. J., SG14 Project Members, Nakagawa, T., Smith, V. C. (2024). New Constraints on Late-Glacial to early Holocene Japanese explosive eruptions using the Lake Suigetsu (SG14 core) sedimentary archive: key markers for dating and synchronising palaeoclimate and archaeological records. Quaternary Science Reviews. 324: 108376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108376
  9. McLean, D., Albert, P. G., Schlolaut, G., Lamb, H. F., Marshall, M. H., Brauer, A., Wade, J., Nakagawa, T., and Smith, V. C. (2022). How reliable is µXRF core scanning at detecting tephra layers in sedimentary records? A case study using the Lake Suigetsu archive (central Japan). Journal of Quaternary Science. 37: 1189 – 1206. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3432
  10. Hyodo, M., Nakagawa, T., Matsushita, H., Kitaba, I., Yamada, K., Tanabe, S., Bradak, B., Miki, M., Staff, R. A., McLean, D., Smith, V. C., Albert, P. G., Bronk Ramsey, C., Yamasaki, A., Kitagawa, J., Suigetsu 2014 Project Members. (2022). Timings, durations and decadal structures of twin Laschamp geomagnetic excursions composed of multiple directional swings. NatureCommunications Earth & Environment. 3: 79. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00401-0
  11. Yang, Q., Jenkins, S. F., Lerner, G. A., Li, W., Suzuki, T., McLean, D., Derkachev, A. N., Utkin, I. V., Xu, J., Pan, B. (2022). The Millennium Eruption of Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano is VEI 6, not 7. Bulletin of Volcanology. 80: 74.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-021-01487-8
  12. Barton, R.N.E., Belhouchet, L., Collcutt, S.N. Aouadi, N., Albert, P.G., Douka, K., Drake, N., Linderholm, L., Macphail, R.I., McLean, D., Mekki, H., Peat, D., Schwenninger, J.-L., Smith, V.C. (2021). New Insights into the Late Middle Stone Age occupation of Oued el Akarit, Southern Tunisia. SLS (Libyan Studies). https://doi.org/10.1017/lis.2021.9
  13. McLean, D., Albert, P. G., Suzuki, T., Nakagawa, T., Kimura, J-I., Chang, Q., Miyabuchi, Y., C. J. Manning, MacLeod, A., Blockley, S., Yamada, K., Kitaba, I., Haraguchi, T., Kitagawa, J., SG14 Project Members, Smith, V. C. (2020). Constraints on the timing of explosive volcanism at Aso and Aira calderas (Japan) between 50 – 30 ka: New insights from the Lake Suigetsu sedimentary record (SG14 core). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008874
  14. McLean, D., Albert, P. G., Suzuki, T., Nakagawa, T., Kimura, J-I., Chang, Q., MacLeod, A., Blockley, S., Yamada, K., Kitaba, I., Haraguchi, T., Kitagawa, J., SG14 Project Members, Smith, V. C. (2020). Refining the eruptive history of Ulleungdo and Changbaishan volcanoes (East Asia) over the last 86 ka using distal records. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 389: 106669 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2019.106669
  15. McLean, D., Albert, P. G., Nakagawa, T., Suzuki, T., Staff, R. A., Yamada, K., Kitaba, I., Haraguchi, T., Kitagawa, J., SG14 Project Members, and Smith, V. C. (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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.12.013
  16. McLean, D., Albert, P. G., Nakagawa, T., Staff, R. A., Suzuki, T. and Smith, V. C. (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: 301- 307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.08.022
  17. Chen, X.Y, McLean, D., Blockley, S. P., Tarasov, P. E., Xu, Y. G., Menzies, M. A. (2019). Developing a Holocene tephrostratigraphy for northern Japan using the sedimentary record from Lake Kushu, Rebun Island. Quaternary Science Reviews. 215: 272 – 292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.05.017
  18. Albert, P. G., Smith, V. C., Suzuki, T., McLean, D., Tomlinson, E. L., Miyabuchi, Y., Kitaba, I., Mark, D. F., Moriwaki, H., SG06 Project Members, Nakagawa, T. (2019). Geochemical characterisation of the widespread Japanese tephrostratigraphic markers and correlations of the Lake Suigetsu sedimentary archive (SG06 core). Quaternary Geochronology. 52: 103 – 131.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2019.01.005
  19. Albert, P. G., Smith, V. C. Suzuki, T., Tomlinson, E., Nakagawa, T., Yamada, K., McLean, D., Staff, R. A., Schlolaut, G., Takemura, K., Nagahashi, Y., Kimura, I-P, SG06 Project Members. (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. 185: 104 – 1028. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.07.003
  20. Chen, X. Y., Blockley, S. P., Tarasov, P. E., Xu, Y. G., McLean, D., Tomlinson, E. L., Albert, P. G., Liu, J. Q., Müller, S., Wagner, M. and Menzies, M. A. (2016). Clarifying the distal to proximal tephrochronology of the Millennium (B–Tm) eruption, Changbaishan Volcano, northeast China. Quaternary Geochronology, 33: 61-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2016.02.003

PhD and MSc Thesis

McLean, D. Establishing a detailed tephrochronological framework for Japan to aid the synchronisation of palaeoenvironmental records across the Asian/Pacific region (PhD thesis). University of Oxford.

McLean, D. Identification and correlation of cryptotephras from Lake Kushu, Rebun Island, Japan (BSc thesis). Royal Holloway, University of London.