Peat depositional environments, the sites where and conditions under which peat
accumulates, significantly influence a resultant coal's physical properties, chemical …

Terrestrial plant biomarkers and their carbon isotopes provide insights into carbon cycling,
paleovegetation and paleoclimate, ranging in scale from local to global. Over the past …

Long chain (C 21 to C 37) n-alkanes are among the most long-lived and widely utilized
terrestrial plant biomarkers. Dozens of studies have examined the range and variation of n …

Peat bogs store up to a third of all terrestrial carbon on Earth, and are one of the largest
natural sources of atmospheric methane. Anaerobic degradation of submerged Sphagnum …

Organic compounds of known biological origin (biomarkers) and preserved in marine
sediments have commonly been used to develop proxy records for past climate. While …

Molecular fossils (biomarkers) are abundant in organic rich natural archives such as peats
and lignites (fossilized peat), where their distribution is governed by their biological source …

Research into renewable bioresources at York and elsewhere is demonstrating that by
applying green chemical technologies to the transformation of typically low value and widely …

The nature of detrital sedimentary (siliciclastic) rocks is determined by geological processes
that occur in the four main Earth surface environments encountered over the sediment's …

Atmospheric methane concentrations decreased during the early to middle Holocene;
however, the governing mechanisms remain controversial. Although it has been suggested …

We have carried out a multi-proxy analysis of a radiocarbon-dated peat core that records the
history of paleoclimate change dating from 18ka in the Dingnan region of southern China …