Abstract
Radiocarbon ages of vascular plant wax–derived n-alkanes preserved in well-dated Holocene
sediments in an anoxic fjord (Saanich Inlet, Canada) were found to be not only substantially older
than the depositional age but increasingly so during the Holocene. Assuming that n-alkanes serve
as a proxy for recalcitrant terrigenous organic matter, this indicates that the
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