Age and origin of leaf wax <span style="" class="text"><i>n</i>-alkanes</span> in fluvial sediment–paleosol sequences and implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions

Bliedtner, Marcel; von Suchodoletz, Hans; Schäfer, Imke; Welte, Caroline; Salazar, Gary; Szidat, Sönke; Haas, Mischa; Dubois, Nathalie; Zech, Roland

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-2105-2020

Articles | Volume 24, issue 4

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 2105–2120, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-2105-2020

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Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 2105–2120, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-2105-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 24, issue 4

Research article 28 Apr 2020

Research article | 28 Apr 2020

Age and origin of leaf wax n-alkanes in fluvial sediment–paleosol sequences and implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions

Marcel Bliedtner et al.

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RC1: 'RE: Age and origin of leaf wax n-alkanes in fluvial sediment-paleosol sequences, and implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions', Ulrich Hanke, 23 Aug 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to Ulrich Hanke', Marcel Bliedtner, 03 Oct 2019
RC2: 'Comment for the manuscript by M. Bliedtner et al. hess-2019-250', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Sep 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to Referee#2', Marcel Bliedtner, 03 Oct 2019

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Short summary

This study investigates the age and origin of leaf wax n-alkanes from a fluvial sediment–paleosol sequence (FSPS) by compound-class ¹⁴C dating. Our results show varying age offsets between the formation and sedimentation of leaf wax n-alkanes from well-developed (paleo)soils and fluvial sediments that are mostly due to their complex origin in such sequences. Thus, dating the leaf wax n-alkanes is an important step for more robust leaf-wax-based paleoenvironmental reconstructions in FSPSs.