Understanding the origin and analysis of sediment-charcoal records with a simulation model

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 13-14, 2007, Pages 1790-1809

  Higuera, Philip E ^a,b   Peters, Matthew E ^a   Brubaker, Linda B ^a   Gavin, Daniel G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION; FIRES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CHARCOAL ACCUMULATION; CHARCOAL DISPERSALS; CHARCOAL TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT SAMPLING;

CHARCOAL;

BOREAL FOREST; CHARCOAL; FIRE HISTORY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; TAPHONOMY;

EID: 34547428994     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.03.010     Document Type: Article

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