A 21000-Year History of Fire

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 207-227

  Power, Mitchell J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate control; Fire; Global fire activity; Last glacial maximum (LGM); Sedimentary charcoal records

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886347531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118529539.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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