Paleolimnology: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Paleolimnology, held at Joensuu, Finland

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Aspects of the developmental history and paleolimnology of lakes in Finland....Pages 1-4
Säynäjälampi and the difficulties inherent in the dating of sediments in a hard-water lake....Pages 5-14
The use of fallout 137 Cs and 239,240 Pu for dating of lake sediments....Pages 15-19
Caesium-137 profiles in the sediments of a partial-meromictic lake on Great Sandy Island (Fraser Island), Queensland, Australia....Pages 21-27
The assessment of 210 Pb data from sites with varying sediment accumulation rates....Pages 29-35
Mineral magnetic studies of lake sediments....Pages 37-44
Global holocene magnetostratigraphy....Pages 45-51
The use of magnetic measurements in interpreting the fire histories of lake drainage basins....Pages 53-58
Changing patterns of sediment accumulation in a small lake in Scania, southern Sweden....Pages 59-64
The use of X-ray radiographic methods in studying sedimentary properties and rates of sediment accumulation....Pages 65-69
An automated technique for the accurate positioning of sediment core sites and the bathymetric mapping of lake basins....Pages 71-74
Recent climatic changes recorded by the salinity of pore waters in the Dead Sea sediments....Pages 75-79
Trace element associations as indicators of sediment accumulation in lakes....Pages 81-84
Transfer functions for estimating paleoecological conditions (pH) from East African diatoms....Pages 85-90
Interpretation of lake quality from contemporary diatom assemblages....Pages 91-97
Bacterial decomposition of organic matter in lacustrine sediments....Pages 99-102
Relationship between sedimentary pigments and primary production: evidence from core analyses of twelve Italian lakes....Pages 103-106
The mythical concept of eutrophication....Pages 107-111
Paleolimnological reconstruction of the effects of atmospheric deposition of acids and heavy metals on the chemistry and biology of lakes in New England and Norway....Pages 113-123
Cultural disturbances and trophic history of a small meromictic lake from central Canada....Pages 125-130
Diatom and chrysophyte relict assemblages in the sediments of Blelham Tarn in the English Lake District....Pages 131-133
Changes of the benthic fauna of the profundal zone of Traunsee (Austria) due to salt mining activities....Pages 135-139
Cladoceran remains as evidence of change in trophic state in three Swiss lakes....Pages 141-146
Changes in diatom flora deposited annually during the freshening of the impounded, sea-bay of Gennarbyviken in southern Finland....Pages 147-152
Eutrophication processes in Spanish reservoirs as revealed by biological records in profundal sediments....Pages 153-158
Seasonal eutrophication by wildfowl in basins isolating from the sea....Pages 159-163
Eutrophication and the disappearance of lakes in the Brodnica Lake District, Northern Poland as a result of human interference....Pages 165-168
An attempt to trace eutrophication in a shallow lake (Balaton, Hungary) using chironomids....Pages 169-175
Zn, P and ATP in the sediments of two lakes in South Finland....Pages 177-179
 Clostridium perfringens (Holland) as an indicator of human effluent in the sediment of Lake Tuomiojärvi, central Finland....Pages 181-184
Paleolimnological studies of annually-laminated sediments in Loe Pool, Cornwall, U.K.....Pages 185-191
Recent geologic development of Lake Michigan (U.S.A.)....Pages 193-198
Paleolimnology of the Peten Lake district, Guatemala....Pages 199-203
Paleolimnology of the Petén Lake district, Guatemala....Pages 205-210
Paleolimnology of the Peten Lake District, Guatemala....Pages 211-216
The Holocene development of some low and high arctic Greenland lakes....Pages 217-224
Palynological investigations of the sediments of ten lakes in eastern Holstein, North Germany....Pages 225-230
Development of Grossensee (Holstein, Germany): variations in trophic status from the analysis of subfossil microfauna....Pages 231-234
Stratigraphy of Cladocera and Chironomidae in a core from a shallow North German lake....Pages 235-239
Diatom succession in the post-glacial sediments of the Komořany Lake, North-West Bohemia, Czechoslovakia....Pages 241-245
The environmental evolution and infilling process of a former lake near Vracov (Czechoslovakia)....Pages 247-250
Variability of Actinocyclus kuetzingii (A.S.) Sim. in the Littorina sediments of the Polish Baltic Coast....Pages 251-256
Paleolimnological investigations in humid and arid zones of the Soviet Union....Pages 257-260
Recent history of Lake Ladoga....Pages 261-263
Diatoms in the plankton and sediments of two lakes of different trophic type....Pages 265-268
Palynological investigations of the sediments of the north-western lakes of the Russian Plain and the Baltic Sea....Pages 269-273
The Middle-Valdaj Lakes in the Western part of the Bolshezemelskaja tundra....Pages 275-278
Sediment formation in Lake Baikal....Pages 281-285
Recent stratigraphy and accumulation of sediment in the deep, oligotrophic Lake Pääjärvi in South Finland....Pages 287-293
Biostratigraphy of Lake Spitaalijärvi: an ultraoligotrophic small lake in Lauhanvuori, western Finland....Pages 295-301
Sysmäjärvi — a lake polluted by mining waste-water....Pages 303-308
Sedimentary chemistry of a small polluted lake, Gallträsk, S. Finland....Pages 309-318