Short organic carbon turnover time and narrow 14C age spectra in early Holocene wetland paleosols

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 142-155

  Vetter, Lael ^a,b   Rosenheim, Brad E ^a,c   Fernandez, Alvaro ^a,d   Törnqvist, Torbjörn E ^a  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

paleosol; radiocarbon; ramped PyrOx; soil organic carbon; turnover time

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; PEAT; SEA LEVEL; SOILS; STRATIGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WETLANDS;

PALEOSOL; RADIOCARBON; RAMPED PYROX; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; TURNOVER TIME;

ORGANIC CARBON;

HOLOCENE; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; PALEOSOL; PYROLYSIS; RADIOCARBON DATING; SOIL CARBON; WETLAND;

LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI DELTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85010685610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GC006526     Document Type: Article

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