Major changes in glacial and Holocene terrestrial temperatures and sources of organic carbon recorded in the Amazon fan by tetraether lipids

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Bendle, James A ^a,b   Weijers, Johan W H ^c,d   Maslin, Mark A ^e   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^c   Schouten, Stefan ^c   Hopmans, Ellen C ^c   Boot, Christopher S ^a   Pancost, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazon; glacial maximum; Holocene; lipids; temperature; tetraethers

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BACTERIOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMARKERS; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; METHANE; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; ORGANIC CARBON; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TROPICS;

AMAZON; AMAZON BASIN; AMAZON CATCHMENTS; BACTERIAL MEMBRANES; BASIN DYNAMICS; CRITICAL FUNCTIONS; GLACIAL MAXIMA; HOLOCENES; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MEAN ANNUAL AIR TEMPERATURES; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; NATURAL SOURCES; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; REGIONAL INTEGRATION; RIVER CATCHMENT; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT PROVENANCE; SOIL BACTERIUM; TERRESTRIAL SEDIMENTS; TETRAETHERS;

LIPIDS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOMARKER; CARBON; ETHER; HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LIPID; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCLIMATE; PROVENANCE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENT CORE; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

AMAZON BASIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78650539212     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003308     Document Type: Article

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