δ13C analyses of individual lignin phenols in Quaternary lake sediments: A novel proxy for deciphering past terrestrial vegetation changes

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 471-474

  Huang, Yongsong ^a   Freeman, Katherine H ^a   Eglinton, Timothy I ^b   Street Perrott, F Alayne ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CATCHMENTS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LAKES; PHENOLS; SEDIMENTS; VEGETATION; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CHANGES; CO2 CONCENTRATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS; TERRESTRIAL VEGETATION; TRANSPORT MECHANISM; VEGETATION CHANGE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC CO; C ANALYSIS; DATA SUPPORT; LAKE LEVELS; LAKE SEDIMENTS; P-COUMARIC ACID; VASCULAR PLANT;

LIGNIN;

CARBON ISOTOPE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LIGNIN; PHENOL; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; VEGETATION HISTORY; ABUNDANCE; CATCHMENT; LAKE LEVEL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE GLACIAL; POLLEN; QUATERNARY; RUNOFF; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

KENYA; MOUNT KENYA; SACRED LAKE;

POACEAE; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0032827793     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0471:CAOILP>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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