Karst

S Frisia, A Borsato - Developments in sedimentology, 2010 - Elsevier
Karst environments are regions where sparingly soluble rocks outcrop and efficient acid
hydrolysis creates spectacular dissolution landforms. The release of CO 2 from karst waters …

Organic proxies in speleothems–New developments, advantages and limitations

AJ Blyth, A Hartland, A Baker - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Research into organic matter in speleothems has progressed recently to encompass new
analytical approaches and applications, which offer increased potential in areas such as …

Biomarker proxies for reconstructing Quaternary climate and environmental change

EL McClymont, H Mackay… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To reconstruct past environmental changes, a range of indirect or proxy approaches can be
applied to Quaternary archives. Here, we review the complementary and novel insights that …

Holocene temperature and hydrological changes reconstructed by bacterial 3-hydroxy fatty acids in a stalagmite from central China

C Wang, JA Bendle, H Zhang, Y Yang, D Liu… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
To achieve a sufficient understanding of the spatial dynamics of terrestrial climate variability,
new proxies and networks of data that cover thousands of years and run up to the present …

Adsorption of organic matter on clay minerals in the Dajiuhu peat soil chronosequence, South China

H Hong, S Chen, Q Fang, TJ Algeo, L Zhao - Applied Clay Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Clay minerals play important roles in stabilizing organic matter (OM) in soils. In order to
investigate the nature of OM in association with clay minerals in peatland soils, the coarse (> …

Occurrence of tetraether lipids in stalagmites: Implications for sources and GDGT-based proxies

H Yang, W Ding, CL Zhang, X Wu, X Ma, G He… - Organic …, 2011 - Elsevier
Lipid biomarkers in stalagmites have potential in palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, but
glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) in stalagmites have rarely been investigated …

Global calibration of novel 3-hydroxy fatty acid based temperature and pH proxies

C Wang, JA Bendle, H Yang, Y Yang… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Hydroxy fatty acids (3-OH-FAs), derived from Gram-negative bacterial outer membranes,
have received recent attention for their potential as new terrestrial pH and temperature …

Molecular organic matter in speleothems and its potential as an environmental proxy

AJ Blyth, A Baker, MJ Collins, KEH Penkman… - Quaternary Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
Organic matter preserved in speleothems has considerable potential to record changes in
the surrounding environment, particularly in the overlying vegetation. Here, we review three …

The role of organo-clay associations in limiting organic matter decay: Insights from the Dajiuhu peat soil, central China

S Chen, H Hong, X Huang, Q Fang, K Yin, C Wang… - Geoderma, 2018 - Elsevier
The mineral-bound organic matter (OM) in soils is of great importance for the global carbon
cycle. Long-standing debate exists regarding the mechanisms of soil organic matter (SOM) …

Impacts of pH and temperature on soil bacterial 3-hydroxy fatty acids: Development of novel terrestrial proxies

C Wang, J Bendle, Y Yang, H Yang, H Sun… - Organic …, 2016 - Elsevier
Gram-negative bacterial 3-hydroxy fatty acids (3-OH-FAs) biomarkers are widespread in a
variety of environments including both marine and terrestrial sediments (including …