Palaeoclimate reconstruction from biomarker geochemistry and stable isotopes of n-alkanes from Carboniferous and Early Permian humic coals and limnic sediments in western and eastern Europe

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue , 2012, Pages 125-149

  Izart, A ^a   Palhol, F ^a   Gleixner, G ^b   Elie, M ^c   Blaise, T ^a   Suarez Ruiz, I ^d   Sachsenhofer, R F ^e   Privalov, V A ^f   Panova, E A ^g  

^a CRPG CNRS   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c Max Planck Institut für Biogeochemie ^*  (Malaysia)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DEL CARBÓN   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^f DONETSK NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^g INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER DISTRIBUTIONS; BLACK SHALES; CARBONIFEROUS COALS; CASSINI; CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN EUROPE; GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; GLOBAL CONTEXT; HIGHER PLANTS; HUMIC COALS; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LATE PERMIAN; N-ALKANES; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; ORGANIC PETROGRAPHY; OXIC CONDITIONS; PALAEOBOTANY; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; PERMIAN; REDUCING CONDITIONS; ROCK-EVAL; SCHNEIDER; STABLE ISOTOPES; TEMPERATE CLIMATE; TROPICAL CLIMATES;

ALGAE; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BIOMARKERS; CLIMATOLOGY; COAL; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; LAKES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PETROGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TROPICS; WATER SUPPLY; WETLANDS;

PARAFFINS;

ALGA; ALGAL BLOOM; ALKANE; BIOMARKER; BLACK SHALE; CARBONIFEROUS; COAL; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FERN; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; HYDROCARBON; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PERMIAN; PETROGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STABLE ISOTOPE; SWAMP; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EASTERN EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

ALGAE; CORDAITES; EMBRYOPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; XEROPHYTA;

EID: 84455205622     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2011.10.004     Document Type: Article

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