Lake Van is the fourth largest terminal lake in the world (volume 607km3, area 3570km2,
maximum depth 460m), extending for 130km WSW–ENE on the Eastern Anatolian High …

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 …

Water levels of lakes fluctuate naturally in response to climatic and hydrological forcing.
Human over-exploitation of water resources leads to increased annual and interannual …

Natron deposits, the best known of which being those at Wadi Natrun in Egypt, have been
used as the flux in the production of vitreous materials from the early 4th millennium BC …

Abstract Lake Van in eastern Turkey has been subject to water level rise during the last
decade and, consequently, the low-lying areas along the shore are inundated, giving …

Sedimentary, geochemical and mineralogical analyses of the ICDP cores recovered from
the Northern Basin (NB) of Lake Van provide evidence of lake level and climatic changes …

Millennial to orbital-scale rainfall changes in the Mediterranean region and corresponding
variations in vegetation patterns were the result of large-scale atmospheric reorganizations …

Accurate predicting of lake level fluctuations is essential and basic in water resources
management for water supply purposes. The predicting of lake level is complicated because …

The lithostratigraphic framework of L ake V an, eastern T urkey, has been systematically
analysed to document the sedimentary evolution and the environmental history of the lake …

Great Lakes water levels have fluctuated over thousands of years. High water levels were a
problem in the 1980s, but a recent sudden drop in Lakes Michigan and Huron has caused …