Identifying Past Fire Events

Fire Phenomena and the Earth System: An Interdisciplinary Guide to Fire Science

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 177-206

  Glasspool, Ian J ^a   Scott, Andrew C ^b  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Black carbon; Charcoal; Earth system; Erosion; Fire scars; Past fire events; Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); Sedimentation; Soot; Stand replacement events

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886327687     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118529539.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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