Charcoal and fly-ash particles from Lake Lucerne sediments (Central Switzerland) characterized by image analysis: anthropologic, stratigraphic and environmental implications

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 19-21, 2007, Pages 2631-2643

  Thevenon, Florian ^a   Anselmetti, Flavio S ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMBUSTION; FLY ASH; FOSSIL FUELS; SEDIMENTS;

CHARCOAL DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; LAKE LUCERNE; MAGNETIC SPHERULES; STEAMBOAT NAVIGATION; SURFACE RUNOFF;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

BIOMASS BURNING; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLY ASH; FOSSIL FUEL; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; NAVIGATION; NINETEENTH CENTURY; RECONSTRUCTION; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SLAG; SPHERULE; STRATIGRAPHY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; LAKE LUCERNE; SWITZERLAND;

MEDICAGO SATIVA; SPHERULES;

EID: 36249010328     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.05.007     Document Type: Article

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