Interpretation of the charcoal record in forest soils: Forest fires and their production and deposition of macroscopic charcoal

Holocene

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 519-525

  Ohlson, Mikael ^a   Tryterud, Elling ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Black carbon; Boreal forest; Charcoal analysis; Experimental burn; Forest fire; Scandinavia; Spatial distribution; Stratigraphic interpretation

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; FOREST FIRE; FOREST SOIL; PARTICLE; PARTICLE SIZE; PERSISTENCE; SCANDINAVIA;

BOREAL FOREST; CHARCOAL; FOREST FIRE; FOREST SOIL;

SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 0034089679     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/095968300667442551     Document Type: Article

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