Black carbon: Fire fingerprints in Pleistocene loess-palaeosol archives in Germany

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 70, Issue , 2014, Pages 44-52

  Wolf, Mareike ^a   Lehndorff, Eva ^a   Mrowald, Matthias ^a   Eckmeier, Eileen ^a,c   Kehl, Martin ^b   Frechen, Manfred ^d   Pätzold, Stefan ^a   Amelung, Wulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE POLYCARBOXYLIC ACIDS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; LOESS-PALAEOSOL SEQUENCES; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; PEDOGENETIC PROCESS; STEPPE VEGETATION; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; ISOTOPES; SEDIMENTS; SOILS;

FIRES;

BLACK CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE HISTORY; GLACIATION; GRASS; LEAF; LOESS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; OXIDATION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; PLEISTOCENE; STEPPE; TOPSOIL;

GERMANY;

EID: 84897864379     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2014.03.002     Document Type: Article

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