Lipid biomarkers in the Zoigê-Hongyuan peat deposit: Indicators of Holocene climate changes in West China

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1927-1940

  Zheng, Yanhong ^a   Zhou, Weijian ^a   Meyers, Philip A ^b   Xie, Shucheng ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

-SCALE HOLOCENE INSTABILITY; EMERGENT PLANT N-ALKANE PROXIES;

BIOMARKERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTRACTION; PARAFFINS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

LIPIDS;

BIOMARKER; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; LIPID; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MONSOON; PEATLAND; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 35448992845     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2007.06.012     Document Type: Article

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