Late Quaternary environmental and climatic changes in central Europe as inferred from the composition of organic matter in annually laminated maar lake sediments

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2004, Pages

  Andreas, Fuhrmann ^a,b   Thomas, Fischer ^a   Andreas, Lücke ^a   Achim, Brauer ^b   Bernd, Zolitschka ^a   Brian, Horsfield ^b   Negendank, Jörg F W ^b   Schleser, Gerhard H ^a   Heinz, Wilkes ^b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Lake sediments; Organic petrology; Pyrolysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 72049111014     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GC000763     Document Type: Article

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