Modern and Ancient Lake Sediments (IAS Special Publication 2)

Modern and Ancient Lake Sediments ISBN: 978-0-632-00234-4......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Modern and ancient lake sediments:
an introduction......Page 7
Saline lakes and their deposits:
a sedimentological approach......Page 13
Late Pleistocene-Holocene evolution
of the Kivu-Tanganyika Basin......Page 49
Holocene carbonate evolution in Lake Balaton (Hungary):
a response to climate and impact of man......Page 63
Permian Saar-Nahe Basin and Recent Lake Constance
(Germany):
two environments of lacustrine algal carbonates......Page 89
Origin of the carbonate sediments in the Wilkins Peak
Member of the lacustrine Green River Formation (Eocene),
Wyoming, U.S.A.......Page 115
Late Neogene chemical sedimentation in the Black Sea......Page 135
Turbidites and varves in Lake Brienz (Switzerland):
deposition of clastic detritus by density
currents......Page 153
Lacustrine facies in the Pliocene Ridge Basin Group: Ridge Basin, California......Page 175
Lacustrine sedimentation in an evaporitic environment:
the Ludian (Palaeogene) of the Mormoiron basin,
southeastern France......Page 195
Triassic lacustrine sediments from South Wales: shore-zone
clastics, evaporites and carbonates......Page 211
Permo-Triassic lacustrine deposits in the Eastern Karoo
Basin, Natal, South Africa......Page 231
Subaqueous clastic fissure eruptions and other examples
of sedimentary transposition in the lacustrine Horton
Bluff Formation (Mississippian), Nova Scotia, Canada......Page 247
A Proterozoic lacustrine interlude from the Zambian
Copperbelt......Page 265
Economic significance of playa lake deposits......Page 285