Sedimentary charcoal pattern in a karstic underground lake, Vercors massif, French Alps: Implications for palaeo-fire history

Holocene

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 845-850

  Carcaillet, Christopher ^a   Perroux, Anne Sophie ^b   Genries, Aurélie ^a   Perrette, Yves ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

Fire history; French Alps; Karst; Lake; Mountain; Sedimentology; Taphonomy; Wood charcoal

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS BURNING; CATCHMENT; CHARCOAL; FIRE HISTORY; KARST HYDROLOGY; LAKE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; TAPHONOMY; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WILDFIRE;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 35648981844     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683607080526     Document Type: Article

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