Assessment of soil n-alkane δd and branched tetraether membrane lipid distributions as tools for paleoelevation reconstruction

Biogeosciences

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2799-2807

  Peterse, F ^a   Van Der Meer, M T J ^a   Schouten, S ^a   Jia, G ^b   Ossebaar, J ^c   Blokker, J ^a   Sinninghe Damste J S ^a,c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PEDOGENESIS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL WATER;

KILIMANJARO [KILIMANJARO (RGA)]; KILIMANJARO [TANZANIA]; TANZANIA;

EID: 72449142647     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-6-2799-2009     Document Type: Article

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