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SUBMITTER: Han YM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4748283 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Han Y M YM Peteet D M DM Arimoto R R Cao J J JJ An Z S ZS Sritrairat S S Yan B Z BZ
Scientific reports 20160210
Smoldering and flaming fires, which emit different proportions of organic (OC) and black carbon (BC, in the form of char and soot), have long been recognized in modern wildfire observations but never in a paleo-record, and little is known about their interactions with climate. Here we show that in the late glacial-early Holocene transition period, when the climate was moist, relatively high quantities of char were deposited in Linsley Pond, Connecticut, USA while soot was more abundant during th ...[more]