Distribution of tetraether lipids in the 25-ka sedimentary record of Lake Challa: Extracting reliable TEX 86 and MBT/CBT palaeotemperatures from an equatorial African lake

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 50, Issue , 2012, Pages 43-54

  Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a,b   Ossebaar, Jort ^a   Schouten, Stefan ^a,b   Verschuren, Dirk ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Archaea; Bacteria; CBT; Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether; Holocene; Lake sediments; LGM; MBT; TEX 86; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; CBT; HOLOCENES; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LGM; MBT; TEX 86; YOUNGER DRYAS;

BACTERIA; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CALIBRATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLYCEROL; LIPIDS; MICROORGANISMS; NUTRIENTS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

LAKES;

ALCOHOL; BACTERIUM; CALIBRATION; HOLOCENE; ISOPRENOID; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LIPID; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SOIL NUTRIENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

AFRICA; KILIMANJARO [TANZANIA]; LAKE CHALLA; TANZANIA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84864749525     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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