Postglacial climate reconstruction based on compound- specific D/H ratios of fatty acids from Blood Pond, New England

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Hou, Juzhi ^a   Huang, Yongsong ^a   Wang, Yi ^a   Shuman, Bryan ^b   Oswald, W Wyatt ^c   Faison, Edward ^c   Foster, David R ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatty acids; Hydrogen isotope; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349933894     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GC001076     Document Type: Article

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