Reconstruction of the late Quaternary paleoenvironments of the Nussloch loess paleosol sequence, Germany, using n-alkane biomarkers

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 226-235

  Zech, Michael ^a   Rass, Simon ^a   Buggle, Björn ^a   Löscher, Manfred ^b   Zöller, Ludwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Loess; N Alkanes; Paleosols; Quaternary; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; FORESTRY; HYDROCARBONS; SEDIMENTS; VEGETATION;

LOESS; N-ALKANES; PALEOSOLS; QUATERNARY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

PARAFFINS;

ALKANE; BIOMARKER; DECIDUOUS TREE; DEGRADATION; LOESS; PALEOCHANNEL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SHRUBLAND; TUNDRA; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ALKANES; DEGRADATION; FORESTRY; PLANTS;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; GERMANY; NUSSLOCH;

EID: 84865361045     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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