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oa Identifying Plant Wax Inputs in Lake Sediments Using Machine Learning
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 30th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG 2021), Sep 2021, Volume 2021, p.1 - 1
Abstract
Summary
We trained models to identify plant type based upon modern leaf wax chain length distributions. We then applied these models to ancient waxes extracted from a core collected from Searles Lake, California, USA, to reconstruct paleovegetation. We validated our models by comparing our vegetation results to the ACE index, a proxy for lake salinity also measured from lake core samples.
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