Impact of contamination and pre-treatment on stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of charred plant remains

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 28, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 2497-2510

  Vaiglova, Petra ^a   Snoeck, Christophe ^a   Nitsch, Erika ^a   Bogaard, Amy ^a   Lee Thorp, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; ORGANIC ACIDS;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; CARBON AND NITROGEN; HUMIC ACID; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; N VALUE; NITROGEN ISOTOPIC; PRE-TREATMENTS; STABLE CARBON; STABLE CARBON AND NITROGEN ISOTOPES; STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; RADIOCARBON DATING;

CONTAMINATION;

CARBON; CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; NITROGEN; SOIL;

ANALYSIS; ARCHEOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PLANT; PROCEDURES; SOIL;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CARBON ISOTOPES; CARBONATES; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PLANTS; SOIL; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 84918839469     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.7044     Document Type: Article

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