This review highlights the ubiquity of black carbon (BC) produced by incomplete combustion
of plant material and fossil fuels in peats, soils, and lacustrine and marine sediments. We …

Wildfires produce a charcoal layer, which has an adsorbing capacity resembling activated
carbon. After the fire a new litter layer starts to accumulate on top of the charcoal layer, which …

Analyses of plant macrofossils, testate amoebae and humification have been carried out on
a 2800-year core from Tore Hill Moss, a raised bog in the Strathspey region of Scotland. All …

Understanding the ecohydrological responses of peatlands to climate change is particularly
challenging over the late Holocene owing to the confounding influence of anthropogenic …

We discuss some recent trends in archaeological microfossil research, including
approaches using multiple microfossil data sets (eg pollen, phytoliths, starches, and …

Existing methods of microscopic charcoal analysis are briefly reviewed. A simple but
effective alter-native method for preparing and quantifying fossil microscopic charcoal in …

We report measurements of the susceptibility of a variety of elemental and organic carbon
samples to oxidative degradation using both acid dichromate and basic peroxide reagents …

Dating recent peat deposits (ie, past} 300 yrs of peat accumulation) has emerged as an
important yet challenging task for estimating rates of organic matter accumulation and …

This paper describes improvements to a previously published technique for the extraction of
carbonaceous fly-ash particles from sediments. By using test-tubes in a water-bath rather …

On combustion, coal produces fly ash (FA) and spheroidal carbonaceous particles (SCP) at
high temperatures. Airborne particles like FA and SCP can be transported over long …