Qualitative Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy has long been established and
implemented in a wide variety of fields including pharmaceutical, biomedical, and clinical …

Past millennial-scale changes in atmospheric CO 2 (CO 2, atm) concentrations have often
been attributed to variations in the overturning timescale of the ocean that result in changes …

Abstract The Southern Ocean paleoceanography provides key insights into how iron
fertilization and oceanic productivity developed through Pleistocene ice-ages and their role …

There is a paucity of long and continuous continental records from South East Asia suitable
to inform on past changes and underlying causes of the region's climate and associated …

In paleoenvironmental studies, the mineralogical composition of sediments is an important
indicator. In combination with other indicators, they contribute to the understanding of …

The mineral content of peat has received little attention until the last few decades, when peat
cores have been increasingly used to study past dust deposition. Paleodust deposition is …

Background and aim Silicon is known to be able to substitute carbon in plant biomass,
especially in cellulose, lignin and phenols. However, a more comprehensive picture …

Continental and marine sediments are composed of a mixture from different sources and are
influenced by a variety of environmental factors and transport processes prior to deposition …

In Archaeology much emphasis is dedicated to bone preservation, but less attention is paid
to the burial soil (ie, Necrosol), despite its crucial role in governing the geochemical …

We conducted a multidisciplinary study to provide the stratigraphic and palaeoclimatic
context of monsoonal rainfall dynamics and their responses to orbital forcing for the Bay of …