Soil Record of the Holocene Paleofires

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 Pyrogenic archives in sinkhole traps 01 02 01 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 E 02 central part of large sinkhole, archive depth 250 cm central part of small sinkhole, archive depth 130 cm gentle slope of large sinkhole charcoal accumulation zone charcoal transportation/accumulation zone 5-20 m distance between zones Dominant processes controlling the completeness of the charcoal record cycles of deposition erosion-deposition / uprooting 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 mesoscale elevation between sinkholes 16 charcoal depletion zone Study objective: to evaluate the series of buried Podzols in karst sinkholes as local-scale archives of the forest paleofires erosion/uprooting

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