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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Lipid biomarkers extracted from a peat core obtained from the northeast edge of the Tibetan
Plateau have provided a 13 kyr record of regional climate change. A period of warmer …

Proxies such as plant macrofossils, humification indices and testate amoebae have been
developed to reconstruct past hydrological variability in ombrotrophic peatlands …