Late Pleistocene charcoal in tropical Atlantic deep-sea sediments: Climatic and geochemical significance

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 855-857

  Verardo, David J ^a   Ruddiman, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; DEPOSITION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TROPICS;

CARBON DEPOSITION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DEEP SEA SEDIMENT; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MARINE SEDIMENTS; ORGANIC CARBON BURIAL; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; BIOMASS-BURNING;

ORGANIC CARBON;

BIOMASS BURNING; CHARCOAL; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; CHARCOAL DEPOSITION; INTERGLACIAL; ORGANIC CARBON; PLEISTOCENE (LATE);

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); (TROPICAL EAST); ATLANTIC;

EID: 0030513828     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0855:LPCITA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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