Towards reconstruction of past fire regimes from geochemical analysis of charcoal

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 55, Issue , 2013, Pages 11-21

  Wolf, Mareike ^a   Lehndorff, Eva ^a   Wiesenberg, Guido L B ^b,c   Stockhausen, Martin ^d   Schwark, Lorenz ^d,e   Amelung, Wulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^e CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBANCES; BENZENE POLYCARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; CHEMICAL SIGNATURES; COMBUSTION TEMPERATURES; FIRE REGIMES; FUEL SOURCE; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN LIVES; HYDROGEN INDICES; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; MASS LOSS; MID-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MINERAL MATTERS; NATURAL FIRE; NITROGEN CONTENT; OXYGEN INDEX; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BENZENE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHARCOAL; FORESTRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; WOOD FUELS;

FIRES;

BURNING; CALIBRATION; CHARCOAL; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST FIRE; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; LABORATORY METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CHARCOAL; FOREST FIRES; FORESTRY; FUELS; GEOCHEMISTRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84871413606     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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