Environmental History and Palaeolimnology: Proceedings of the Vth International Symposium on Palaeolimnology, held in Cumbria, U.K.

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Edward Smith Deevey 1914–1988....Pages 1-7
Palaeolimnology in the English Lakes — some questions and answers over fifty years....Pages 9-24
Accuracy and precision in sediment chronology....Pages 25-34
 241 Am dating of lake sediments....Pages 35-42
Accuracies in Po-210 determination for lead-210 dating....Pages 43-52
How long was the Younger Dryas? Preliminary evidence from annually laminated sediments of Soppensee (Switzerland)....Pages 53-57
Absolute dating of late Quaternary Lacustrine sediments by high resolution varve chronology....Pages 59-61
The record of deposition of radionuclides in the sediments of Ponsonby Tarn, Cumbria....Pages 63-70
Deposition and transport of radionuclides within an upland drainage basin in mid-Wales....Pages 71-76
Progress in understanding the chemical stratigraphy of metals in lake sediments in relation to acidic precipitation....Pages 77-84
Spheroidal carbonaceous particles as a marker for recent sediment distribution....Pages 85-90
Magnetic spherules in recent lake sediments....Pages 91-97
Lake sediment records of erosional processes....Pages 99-106
A multidisciplinary study of the lake Bjäresjösjön (S Sweden): land-use history, soil erosion, lake trophy and lake-level fluctuations during the last 3000 years....Pages 107-114
Paleolimnology of Slapton Ley, Devon, UK....Pages 115-124
Sequential inorganic chemical analysis of a core from Slapton Ley, Devon, UK....Pages 125-135
Sediment characteristics in relation to cultivation history in two varved lake sediments from East Finland....Pages 137-142
The influence of land use on the sedimentation of the river delta in the Kyrönjoki drainage basin....Pages 143-147
Heavy metals (Cu and Zn) in recent sediments of Llangorse Lake, Wales: non-ferrous smelting, Napoleon and the price of wheat — a palaeoecological study....Pages 149-154
A comparative study of heavy metal contamination and pollution in four reservoirs in the English Midlands, UK....Pages 155-162
Sedimentary diatom concentrations and accumulation rates as predictors of lake trophic state....Pages 163-169
The sediment column as a record of trophic status: examples from Bosherston Lakes, SW Wales....Pages 171-180
Recent changes to upland tarns in the English Lake District....Pages 181-186
Palaeolimnological study of an environmental monitoring area, or, Are there pristine lakes in Finland?....Pages 187-190
The eutrophication history of Lake Särkinen, Finland and the effects of lake aeration....Pages 191-199
Are we building enough bridges between paleolimnology and aquatic ecology?....Pages 201-206
Weichselian chironomid and cladoceran assemblages from maar lakes....Pages 207-211
Stratigraphy of the fossil Chironomidae (Diptera) from Lake Grasmere, South Island, New Zealand, during the last 6000 years....Pages 213-221
Modern assemblages of arctic and alpine Chironomidae as analogues for late-glacial communities....Pages 223-227
Paleolimnology of Neusiedlersee, Austria....Pages 229-238
Palaeolimnology of Neusiedlersee, Austria....Pages 239-244
Paleolimnological investigation of three manipulated lakes from Sudbury, Canada....Pages 245-252
Dominant diatoms in the interglacial lake sediments of the Middle Pleistocene in Central and Eastern Poland....Pages 253-258
Fossil diatom inferred reconstruction of the pH history of two acidic, clear water lakes from insular Newfoundland, Canada....Pages 259-266
Taphonomy and diagenesis in diatom assemblages; a Late Pleistocene palaeoecological study from Lake Magadi, Kenya....Pages 267-272
Palaeolimnological aspects of a Late-Glacial shallow lake in Sandy Flanders, Belgium....Pages 273-278
Palaeolimnological studies of laminated sediments from the Shropshire-Cheshire meres....Pages 279-292
Paleolimnological studies using sequential lipid extraction from recent lacustrine sediment: recognition of source organisms from biomarkers....Pages 293-303
Vegetation change and pollen recruitment in a lowland lake catchment: Groby Pool, Leics (England)....Pages 305-310
Seasonal changes in sedimenting material collected by high aspect ratio sediment traps operated in a holomictic eutrophic lake....Pages 311-316
Paleolimnology of a polar oasis, Truelove Lowland, Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada....Pages 317-325
An environmental history of two freshwater lakes in the Larsemann Hills, Antarctica....Pages 327-331
Paleolimnology of Qilu Hu, Yunnan Province, China....Pages 333-340
Sedimentary features and the evolution of lake Honghu, central China....Pages 341-345
Palaeolakes of the south central Sahara — problems of palaeoclimatological interpretation....Pages 347-357
Holocene environments in the central Sahara....Pages 359-365
Chronology of the major palaeohydrological events in NW Africa during the late Quaternary: PALHYDAF results....Pages 367-372
Paleolimnology, William Morris and The Magic Flute ....Pages 373-382