Combustion controls on sedimentary charcoal: Experimental insights for Quaternary paleofire interpretations

Quaternary International 2026 Open access

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Authors: India Miller, Alexandra Tsalickis, Gary Sunderland, Michael Boadu, Paul E. Ohno, Richard S. Vachula
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2026.110262
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References: 39

Abstract

Sedimentary charcoal is a widely used fire proxy in Quaternary science, forming the basis of fire variability reconstructions, and fire-climate-vegetation-human relationships across the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. But many uncertainties regarding its proxy systematics persist. These uncertainties include ambiguity regarding how combustion parameters (e.g. temperature and oxygen availability) influence charcoal production rates and charcoal morphometry, the relationship between sedimentary charcoal and finer sized atmospheric wildfire products (e.g.,

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Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Building materials and conservation

Publication details

Journal / source
Quaternary International
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Volume
767
Pages
110262–110262
Publication date
6 April 2026
Language
EN