Charcoal in soils: A preliminary view

Soil Mineralogy with Environmental Applications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2018, Pages 819-830

  Teixeira, S Rainho ^a   Dixon, Joe B ^b   White, G Norman ^b   Newsom, Lee A ^c  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerator mass spectrometry; Charcoal formation; Paleoclimatology; Paleoecology; Radiocarbon dating; Soils

Indexed keywords

EID: 85102233570     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2136/sssabookser7.c28     Document Type: Chapter

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