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QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
卷 144, 期 -, 页码 123-131出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.05.011
关键词
Compound-specific radiocarbon analysis (CSRA); Lacustrine sediments; Soppensee/Switzerland; Long-chain n-alkanes
资金
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [200021-119950/200020-13484, 200020-131922]
- Competence Center Environment and Sustainability (CCES) of the ETH domain through Project BigLink
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [200020_131922] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
Compound-specific radiocarbon (C-14) analyses allow studying the fate of individual biomarkers in ecosystems. In lakes with small catchments, terrestrial biomarkers have the potential to be used for the dating of sediments that lack the traditionally targeted terrestrial macrofossils, if the specific organic compounds are deposited soon after production. On the other hand, if the biomarkers have been stored for a significant amount of time in the soils of the catchment before transported to the lake, their age can be used to reconstruct changes in average residence time of organic material on land through time. Here we present a study based on compound-specific C-14 analysis of the sedimentary record of Lake Soppensee, Switzerland, targeting long-chain n-alkanes of exclusive terrigenous origin, and comparing them with sediment ages obtained by high-resolution macrofossil dating. Additionally, we measured C-14 ages of bulk organic matter and carbonate samples to assess the hard water effect. Prior to 3100 cal BP n-alkanes had about the same age as the sediment or they were slightly older, indicating that the vast majority of the terrestrial organic carbon transported to the lake had a short residence time on land. In the samples younger than 3100 cal BP an increasing offset is observed, indicating liberation of old buried soil organic matter that must have accumulated over the previous millennia. Our results indicate that as long as stable ecosystem conditions have prevailed, the distribution and isotopic composition of the n-alkanes can be used as environmental proxies in small catchments with limited surface runoff, confirming a few earlier studies. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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