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This review outlines the origin and environmental significance of magnetic minerals in lake sediments. Attention is drawn to situations where the patterns of mineral magnetic variation is a reflection of processes other than changing erosion rates and fire incidence. The use of mineral magnetic techniques in sediment source tracing, palaeoclimatic studies and the reconstruction of particulate pollution history is illustrated by means of case studies from Britain and N. America. The value of magnetic susceptibility as an on-site core logging technique is shown by reference to data from Lake Washington.
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Oldfield, F., Barnosky, C., Leopold, E.B. et al. Mineral magnetic studies of lake sediments. Hydrobiologia 103, 37–44 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00028425
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