C4 plant expansion in the Ganga Plain during the last glacial cycle: Insights from isotopic composition of vascular plant biomarkers

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 67, Issue , 2014, Pages 58-71

  Agrawal, Shailesh ^a,b   Galy, Valier ^c   Sanyal, Prasanta ^d   Eglinton, Timothy ^c,e  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

^e GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX MIXTURE; HYDROLOGICAL CONDITION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL CYCLES; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; PARTIAL DEGRADATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; VASCULAR PLANT;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARAFFINS; PLANT EXPANSION; SATURATED FATTY ACIDS; SEDIMENTS; VEGETATION;

CHAINS;

ABUNDANCE; BIOMARKER; FATTY ACID; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION HISTORY;

GANGETIC PLAIN;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84892142062     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.12.007     Document Type: Article

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