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The ultimate value of black carbon archives in sediments as paleo-records of past combustion activities depends entirely upon our ability to accurately interpret this information and hinges upon our understanding of black carbon emission, air and water to sediment transport and post-deposition processes. This poses a number of constraints. Nonetheless, present day inventories of black carbon from fossil fuel and biomass burning are available and these could be related to black carbon concentrations in lake sediments. We therefore suggest the use of these relations to extrapolate information on black carbon emissions originating from past biomass burning from black carbon records preserved in ancient lake sediments.
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Lim, B., Renberg, I. (1997). Lake Sediment Records of Fossil Fuel-derived Carbonaceous Aerosols from Combustion. In: Clark, J.S., Cachier, H., Goldammer, J.G., Stocks, B. (eds) Sediment Records of Biomass Burning and Global Change. NATO ASI Series, vol 51. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59171-6_20
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