Preliminary identification of palaeofloods with the alkane ratio C 31 /C 17 and their potential link to global climate changes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wang, Jianjun ^a   Chen, Liqi ^a   Li, Li ^a   He, Jianhua ^a   Chen, Jian ^a   Jiang, Chuanjie ^b   Wang, Weiguo ^a   Li, Sabrina ^c   Li, Yiliang ^a   Zhang, Rui ^d  

^a Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

^b Department of Flood Prevention   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84923315916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06502     Document Type: Article

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