Chemistry, radiocarbon ages, and development of a subtropical acid peat in Queensland, Australia

Australian Journal of Soil Research

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 411-425

  Krull, Evelyn S ^a,b   Thompso, Clifford H ^a   Skjemstad, Jan O ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b CRC for Greenhouse Accounting ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

13C; 13C NMR; Acid peat; Charcoal; Holocene

Indexed keywords

FIRE FREQUENCY; RADIOCARBON AGES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; DATA REDUCTION; DRAINAGE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ISOTOPES; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

PEAT;

ACID SOIL; HOLOCENE; PEAT; PEDOGENESIS; RADIOCARBON DATING; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; FRASER ISLAND; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 3242713471     PISSN: 00049573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SR03144     Document Type: Article

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