Rock–Eval pyrolysis, a widely used petroleum screening technique developed primarily for
ancient sedimentary rocks and kerogens, has been increasingly applied to the …

Varved lake sediments provide a unique opportunity to validate results of isotope dating
methods. This allows testing of different numerical models and constraining procedures to …

The distribution of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) has been shown
to correlate with mean annual air temperature and is increasingly used for paleoclimate …

A set of sedimentary cores, high resolution swath bathymetry and subbottom profiler data
provides new insights on sedimentary processes in meromictic maar Lake Pavin, France …

A high-resolution (average 6 years/sampling interval) palaeoenvironmental reconstruction
using pollen, charcoal and non-pollen palynomorphs was carried out on annually laminated …

Hemp (Cannabis sp.) has been a fundamental plant for the development of human societies.
Its fibers have long been used for textiles and rope making, which requires prior stem retting …

Palaeoenvironmental studies allow the assessment of long-term human–climate–
environmental interactions, and furnish valuable tools for the sustainable management of …

A 14-m long sedimentary sequence (core PAV12) was collected in the deepest part of Lake
Pavin, a maar lake located in the French Massif Central. The PAV12 sedimentary sequence …

In order to evaluate the recurrence of toxic cyanobacterial blooms and to determine the
survival capabilities of the resistance cells through time, a sedimentary core spanning 6700 …

This book presents the Rock-Eval® method, which was invented in France in the 1970s and
is used by the oil industry worldwide to characterize source rocks and reservoir rocks as well …