Conclusion
The lake sediments have registered the information of palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironment in the lake itself and the regional scale. This also leads to a complexity in study of the palaeolimnology by all kinds of proxies. How to purify these proxies to indicate the palaeoclimate has become a problem to be solved. Most of the proxies can qualitively identify the percentage of allochthonous and autochthonous organic components, e.g. δ13corg CD/TC. The model introduced in this note has provided a method of quantitatively calculating the amount of allochthonous organic carbon. As for determination of regulating parameters, i.e. A1 and As, further work is still in need.
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Qian, J., Wang, S., Xue, B. et al. A method of quantitatively calculating amount of allochthonous organic carbon in lake sediments. Chin.Sci.Bull. 42, 1821–1823 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02882652
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