A hydrocarbon biomarker record for the last 40 kyr of plant input to Lake Heqing, southwestern China

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 595-613

  Zhang, Zhaohui ^a,f   Zhao, Meixun ^a   Yang, Xiangdong ^b   Wang, Sumin ^b   Jiang, Xuezhong ^b   Oldfield, Frank ^c   Eglinton, Geoffrey ^a,d,e  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algae; Aquatic plants; C4 vs. C3 plants; China; Compound specific 13C; Cyclobotryococcatriene; Heqing Lake; LGM; Magnetic susceptibility; n alkanes; n alkenes; Paleoenvironment; Pollen; Yunnan

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANTS; HYDROCARBON BIOMARKERS;

BIOMARKERS; ISOTOPES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

HYDROCARBONS;

BIOMARKER; HYDROCARBON; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LAKE HEQING; YUNNAN;

EID: 1842789491     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2003.12.003     Document Type: Article

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