Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of Northern Spain during the last 8000 cal yr BP based on the biomarker content of the Roñanzas peat bog (Asturias)

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 454-466

  Ortiz, José E ^a   Gallego, José Luis R ^b   Torres, Trinidad ^a   Díaz Bautista, Arantxa ^a   Sierra, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION RATE; HUMID PERIODS; IN-PLANTS; LIPID DISTRIBUTIONS; METHYL KETONES; N-ALKANES; OMBROTROPHIC PEAT; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

ALKYLATION; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DEGRADATION; KETONES; ORGANIC CARBON; PEAT; PHENOLS; WETLANDS;

PARAFFINS;

ABUNDANCE; ALKANE; BIOMARKER; CLIMATE VARIATION; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; INDEX METHOD; LIPID; MOSS; OMBROTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PEATLAND; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDGE; STEROL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION HISTORY;

SPAIN;

CAREX; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 77949912527     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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