This text, written by a leading researcher in the field, describes the origin and formation of
lakes in order to give context to the question of how lacustrine deposits form. It explains the …

Lakes and lake deposits present two fundamental paradoxes:(1) Modern lakes are vastly
complicated, but the rock records of lakes are relatively simple; extensive observations …

Abstract This Special Issue was produced as an output from the EU Integrated Project Euro-
limpacs which aimed to evaluate the impacts of global change on European freshwater …

My purpose in writing this book (I presuppose most readers will have a rudimentary
knowledge of introductory geology, chemistry, and physics) is to illustrate and popularize the …

Saline lakes (lakes with> 5000 ppm dissolved solutes) are common throughout the arid
regions of the world. Their distribution is controlled by tectonic setting and climate, and thus …

Plant-macrofossil analysis is one of the most useful biostratigraphical methods for the
reconstruction of former lake-level changes. The distribution of submerged, floating-leaved …

Ancient lakes are among the best archivists of past environmental change, having
experienced more than one full glacial cycle, a wide range of climatic conditions, tectonic …

Salt lakes are an important feature of the landscape of many regions of the world. Despite
their elevated salinities, saline lakes serve a variety of uses and form the cornerstone of …

The major stratigraphic aspects of lacustrine rocks are geometry facies patterns and vertical
sequence Together with information derived from petrography and paleontology these …

We describe a palaeolimnological meta-database (“LakeCores”) that includes information
for lakes in Europe that have been cored for studies of recent environmental change. Only …