Carbonate rhizoliths in loess and their implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction revealed by isotopic composition: δ13C, 14C

Chemical Geology

Volumn 283, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 251-260

  Gocke, M ^a   Pustovoytov, K ^b   Kuhn P ^c   Wiesenberg, G L B ^a   Loscher M ^d   Kuzyakov, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

13C; Calcified roots; Loess; Micromorphology; Radiocarbon age; Secondary carbonate

Indexed keywords

CALCIFIED ROOTS; LOESS; MICROMORPHOLOGIES; RADIOCARBON AGE; SECONDARY CARBONATE;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBONATES; CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPES; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBONATION;

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LOESS; MICROMORPHOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; RHIZOLITH;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; GERMANY; NUSSLOCH;

EID: 79953288250     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.01.022     Document Type: Article

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