Evidence of Late Quaternary Fires from Charcoal and Siliceous Aggregates in Lake Sediments in the Eastern U.S.A.

• Main Author: Ballard, Joanne P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange 2015
• Subjects: late glacial; fire; charcoal; siliceous aggregates; nitrogen; acid; Cahaba Pond; Biogeochemistry; Botany; Geochemistry; Glaciology; Hydrology; Other Chemistry; Paleobiology; Plant Sciences; Soil Science; Stratigraphy; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; Alabama; Greenland; Jackson Pond; Greenland ice cores
• Online Access: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/3492; https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4871&context=utk_graddiss

The late-glacial transition to the Holocene, 15,000–11,600 cal yr BP, is an enigmatic period of dynamic global changes and a major extinction event in North America. Fire is an agent of disturbance that transforms the environment physically and chemically, and affects plant community composition. To...