Paleoenvironmental significance of compound-specific δ13C variations in n-alkanes in the Hongyuan peat sequence from southwest China over the last 13 ka

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 491-497

  Yamamoto, Shinya ^a   Kawamura, Kimitaka ^a   Seki, Osamu ^a   Meyers, Philip A ^a,b   Zheng, Yanhong ^c   Zhou, Weijian ^d  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANTS; ASIAN MONSOON; HOLOCENES; INDIAN MONSOON; ISOTOPIC SIGNALS; N-ALKANES; PEAT ACCUMULATION; POSITIVE EXCURSION; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SOUTHWEST CHINA;

AQUACULTURE; CELLULOSE; PEAT; STRATIGRAPHY; WETLANDS;

PARAFFINS;

ACCUMULATION RATE; ALKANE; BOG; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; CELLULOSE; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PEAT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ALKANES; CELLULOSE; CHINA; INDIA; PEAT; PLANTS; SWAMPS; WATER PLANTS; WETLANDS;

CHINA; HONGYA; SICHUAN;

EID: 77949912259     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2010.01.006     Document Type: Article

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