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Pyrolysis GC/MS as a rapid screening tool for determination of peat-forming plant composition in cores from ombrotrophic peat (2011)
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McClymont, E., Bingham, E., Nott, C., Chambers, F., Pancost, R., & Evershed, R. (2011). Pyrolysis GC/MS as a rapid screening tool for determination of peat-forming plant composition in cores from ombrotrophic peat. Organic Geochemistry, 42(11), 1420-1435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2011.07.004

Peat cores provide decadal to centennial records of climatic and environmental change, including evidence for human/environment interaction. Existing palaeoenvironmental proxies (macrofossils, pollen, humification, testate amoebae, lipid composition)... Read More about Pyrolysis GC/MS as a rapid screening tool for determination of peat-forming plant composition in cores from ombrotrophic peat.

Archaeol as a methanogen biomarker in ombrotrophic bogs (2011)
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Pancost, R., McClymont, E., Bingham, E., Roberts, Z., Charman, D., Hornibrook, E., …Evershed, R. (2011). Archaeol as a methanogen biomarker in ombrotrophic bogs. Organic Geochemistry, 42(10), 1279-1287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2011.07.003

In order to develop new tools in the reconstruction of microbiological processes in ancient continental settings, we determined the concentration of archaeol and sn-2-hydroxyarchaeol in four Holocene ombrotrophic peatlands, spanning a range of Europe... Read More about Archaeol as a methanogen biomarker in ombrotrophic bogs.

Alkenones and coccoliths in ice-rafted debris during the Last Glacial Maximum in the North Atlantic: implications for the use of UK37' as a sea surface temperature proxy (2011)
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Rosell-Melé, A., Balestra, B., Kornilova, O., McClymont, E., Russell, M., Monechi, S., …Ziveri, P. (2011). Alkenones and coccoliths in ice-rafted debris during the Last Glacial Maximum in the North Atlantic: implications for the use of UK37' as a sea surface temperature proxy. Journal of Quaternary Science, 26(6), 657-664. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1488

The UK37′ index has proven to be a robust proxy to estimate past sea surface temperatures (SSTs) over a range of time scales, but like any other proxy, it has uncertainties. For instance, in reconstructions of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in the no... Read More about Alkenones and coccoliths in ice-rafted debris during the Last Glacial Maximum in the North Atlantic: implications for the use of UK37' as a sea surface temperature proxy.