Call number:
AWI G2-93-0199
Description / Table of Contents:
The essays in this volume cover: the materials which may be recognizably preserved for varying periods of time or whose presence in certain deposits may be inferred from characteristic products of their diagenesis; how and to what extent these materials or diagenetic products may be used to reconstruct the flora of a lake basin, its catchment area or regions further away; the reliability or fallibility of chemical, physical or biological methods of analysis, where materials come from, to what extent they are homogeneously or heterogeneously deposited after arrival in a lake basin and whether the latter situation arises ab initio or is the result of later perturbations; the various direct or indirect methods of dating deposits, even on a global scale, and stress, strain and stability in lacustrine environments. Some chapters are devoted to reconstruction of the past during certain periods of time in given localities but in all the chapters the matters considered and views expressed are related to previous work done in various parts of the world. The book will be of value to all concerned with the past and present environment, botany, ecology, hydrology, and geography. The reference sections provide a comprehensive bibliography of palaeolimnological and related literature.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
XVIII, 411 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:
0816613648
Language:
English
Note:
Table of Contents: Winifred Tutin - a personal note / John W. G. Lund. - 1 Chemical stratigraphy of lake sediments as a record of environmental change / D. R. Engstrom and H. E. Wright. - 2 Organic geochemistry of lacustrine sediments: triterpenoids of higher-plant origin reflecting post-glacial vegetational succession / P. A. Cranwell. - 3 Empirical testing of 210Pb-dating models for lake sediments / F. Oldfield. - 4 The transfer of natural and artificial radionuclides to Brotherswater from its catchment / J. D. Eakins ... - 5 A global review of palaeomagnetic results from wet lake sediments / R. Thompson. - 6 Stratigraphic changes in algal remains (diatoms and chrysophytes) in the recent sediments of Blelham Tarn, English Lake District / Elizabeth Y. Haworth. - 7 The preservation of algal remains in recent lake sediments / David Livingstone. - 8 Stress, strain, and stability of lacustrine ecosystems / Edward S. Deevey, Jr. - 9 Pollen recruitment to the sediments of an enclosed lake in Shropshire, England / Anne P. Bonny and Peter V. Allen. - 10 Sediment focusing and pollen influx / Margaret Bryan Davis ... - 11 Stages in soil development reconstructed by evidence from hypha fragments, pollen and humus contents in soil profiles / Svend T. Andersen. - 12 Pollen diagrams from Cross Fell and their implication for former tree-lines / Judith Turner. - 13 The Holocene vegetation of the Burren, western Ireland / W. A. Watts. - 14 Late-Quaternary pollen and plant macrofossil stratigraphy at Lochan an Druim, north-west Scotland / Hilary H. Birks. - Index.
Location:
AWI Reading room
Branch Library:
AWI Library
