High-sensitivity measurement of diverse vascular plant-derived biomarkers in high-altitude ice cores

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 2009, Pages

  Makou, Matthew C ^a,b   Thompson, Lonnie G ^b   Montluçon, Daniel B ^a   Eglinton, Timothy I ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; ANALYTICAL TOOL; BIOMARKER ASSEMBLAGE; DITERPENOIDS; FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; HIGH ALTITUDE; HIGH-SENSITIVITY; HOLOCENES; ICE CORE; ICE FIELDS; SEMIVOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SMALL SAMPLES; STIR BAR SORPTIVE EXTRACTION; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION FIRE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTRACTION; FORESTRY; ICE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; THERMAL DESORPTION; VEGETATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

BIOMARKERS;

BIOMARKER; BIOMASS BURNING; EXTRACTION METHOD; FIRE HISTORY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RECONSTRUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SORPTION; TERPENE; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION HISTORY; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANDES; BOLIVIA; ORURO [BOLIVIA]; SAJAMA NATIONAL PARK; SOUTH AMERICA;

CONIFEROPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 70349240406     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037643     Document Type: Article

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