Publication Date:
2023-07-29
Description:
We have measured leaf wax n-Alkanes from a Loess Paleosol Sequence (location: 47.56819 / 7.88053) ranging back to MIS 4. The data set contains n-Alkane patterns, Deuterium and Radiocarbon.
We also present some calculations, derived from the Patterns:
Average chain length gives a hint whether trees/shrubs or grasses were the dominant vegetation. The higher the value, the higher the contribution of grasses.
ACL=(27 x nC_27+29 x nC_29+31 x nC_31+33 x nC_33)/(nC_27+nC_29+nC_31+nC_33 )
OEP is a marker for degradation. The higher the values, the less degraded are the n-alkanes.
OEP=(nC_27+nC_29+nC_31+nC_33)/(nC_26+nC_28+nC_30+nC_32 )
For more information, further calculations and discussion see the related manuscript.
Keywords:
Age, dated, range, maximum; Age, dated, range, minimum; Carbon mass; Fraction modern carbon; Fraction modern carbon, standard deviation; Laboratory code/label; Moehlin; n-Alkane, average chain length; n-Alkane, total per unit sediment mass; n-Alkane C25, per unit sediment mass; n-Alkane C26, per unit sediment mass; n-Alkane C27, per unit sediment mass; n-Alkane C28, per unit sediment mass; n-Alkane C29, per unit sediment mass; n-Alkane C29, standard deviation; n-Alkane C29, δD; n-Alkane C30, per unit sediment mass; n-Alkane C31, per unit sediment mass; n-Alkane C31, standard deviation; n-Alkane C31, δD; n-Alkane C32, per unit sediment mass; n-Alkane C33, per unit sediment mass; n-Alkane C34, per unit sediment mass; n-Alkane C35, per unit sediment mass; Odd-even predominance index; Sample code/label; Sample mass; SOIL; Soil profile; Switzerland
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 673 data points
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