Factors controlling the deuterium contents of sedimentary hydrocarbons

AL Sessions - Organic Geochemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
The hydrogen isotopic compositions of sedimentary hydrocarbon molecules are now being
used to address a range of scientific questions, from paleoclimate to environmental …

Forensic stable isotope biogeochemistry

TE Cerling, JE Barnette, GJ Bowen… - Annual Review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Stable isotopes are being used for forensic science studies, with applications to both natural
and manufactured products. In this review we discuss how scientific evidence can be used …

Plant leaf wax biomarkers capture gradients in hydrogen isotopes of precipitation from the Andes and Amazon

SJ Feakins, LP Bentley, N Salinas, A Shenkin… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
Plant leaf waxes have been found to record the hydrogen isotopic composition of
precipitation and are thus used to reconstruct past climate. To assess how faithfully they …

Production of leaf wax n-alkanes across a tropical forest elevation transect

SJ Feakins, T Peters, MS Wu, A Shenkin, N Salinas… - Organic …, 2016 - Elsevier
Waxy compounds form the boundary layer of the living leaf and contribute biomarkers to
soils, and lake and marine sediments. Cataloging the variation in leaf wax traits between …

A major increase in winter snowfall during the middle Holocene on western Greenland caused by reduced sea ice in Baffin Bay and the Labrador Sea

EK Thomas, JP Briner, JJ Ryan‐Henry… - Geophysical Research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Precipitation is predicted to increase in the Arctic as temperature increases and sea ice
retreats. Yet the mechanisms controlling precipitation in the Arctic are poorly understood and …

A model–model and data–model comparison for the early Eocene hydrological cycle

MJ Carmichael, DJ Lunt, M Huber… - Climate of the …, 2016 - cp.copernicus.org
A range of proxy observations have recently provided constraints on how Earth's
hydrological cycle responded to early Eocene climatic changes. However, comparisons of …

[HTML][HTML] Different hydrogen isotope fractionations during lipid formation in higher plants: Implications for paleohydrology reconstruction at a global scale

J Liu, W Liu, Z An, H Yang - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Leaf wax δD n-alkane values have shown to differ significantly among plant life forms (eg,
among grasses, shrubs and trees) in higher plants. However, the underlying causes for the …

The stable hydrogen isotopic composition of sedimentary plant waxes as quantitative proxy for rainfall in the West African Sahel

EM Niedermeyer, M Forrest, B Beckmann… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
Various studies have demonstrated that the stable hydrogen isotopic composition (δD) of
terrestrial leaf waxes tracks that of precipitation (δD precip) both spatially across climate …

Methods and future directions for paleoclimatology in the Maya Lowlands

PMJ Douglas, M Brenner, JH Curtis - Global and Planetary Change, 2016 - Elsevier
A growing body of paleoclimate data indicates that periods of severe drought affected the
Maya Lowlands of southeastern Mexico and northern Central America, especially during the …

Paleoclimate significance of n-alkane molecular distributions and δ2H values in surface peats across the monsoon region of China

X Huang, PA Meyers, J Xue, Y Zhang… - Palaeogeography …, 2016 - Elsevier
Leaf wax molecular distributions and isotopic values are generally considered
paleohydrologic proxies. Here we evaluate the sensitivity of alkane chain length …