Glacial-interglacial environmental changes inferred from molecular and compound-specific δ13C analyses of sediments from Sacred Lake, Mt. Kenya

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1383-1404

  Huang, Yongsong ^a,b   Street Perrott, F Alayne ^c   Perrott, R Alan ^c   Metzger, Pierre ^d   Eglinton, Geoffrey ^a  

^a Biogeochemistry Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESHWATER SEDIMENT; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

KENYA;

EID: 0032699976     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(99)00074-5     Document Type: Article

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