Varves in lake sediments–a review

B Zolitschka, P Francus, AEK Ojala… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Downcore counting of laminations in varved sediments offers a direct and incremental
dating technique for high-resolution climatic and environmental archives with at least annual …

A 2000-year record of solar forcing on varved lake sediment in eastern Finland

E Haltia-Hovi, T Saarinen, M Kukkonen - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
A high-resolution study was performed on varved sediments from Lake Lehmilampi in
eastern Finland. Varve data was collected by digital image analysis using standard 1.8 mm …

A 5000-yr record of climate change in varved sediments from the oxygen minimum zone off Pakistan, Northeastern Arabian Sea

U Von Rad, M Schaaf, KH Michels, H Schulz… - Quaternary …, 1999 - Elsevier
The upper Holocene marine section from a kasten core taken from the oxygen minimum
zone off Karachi (Pakistan) at water depth 700 m contains continuously laminated sediments …

The “Fall dump”—a new perspective on the role of a “shade flora” in the annual cycle of diatom production and export flux

AES Kemp, J Pike, RB Pearce, CB Lange - Deep Sea Research Part II …, 2000 - Elsevier
Investigations of diatom fluxes recorded in laminated sediments using scanning electron
microscope techniques together with evidence from sediment trap studies have contributed …

Mid to Late Holocene climate change in north central Mongolia as recorded in the sediments of Lake Telmen

JA Peck, P Khosbayar, SJ Fowell, RB Pearce… - Palaeogeography …, 2002 - Elsevier
A record of climatic change has been reconstructed for the past 7110 calibrated calendar
(cal) years for Lake Telmen, Mongolia, based upon sedimentologic and geomorphic …

Toarcian black shales in the Dutch Central Graben: record of energetic, variable depositional conditions during an oceanic anoxic event

J Trabucho-Alexandre, R Dirkx… - Journal of …, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The environmental conditions, mechanisms, and processes that resulted in the deposition of
organic-matter-rich sediments during the early Toarcian oceanic anoxic event are still a …

Methods for preparing and counting biochemical varves

AF Lotter, G Lemcke - Boreas, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Four different preparation and counting methods for biochemical varves were compared in
order to assess counting errors and to standardize these techniques. The properties of two …

The nature of varved sedimentation in the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela, and its palaeoclimatic significance

KA Hughen, JT Overpeck, LC Peterson… - Geological Society …, 1996 - lyellcollection.org
A laminated sediment record of the last 12 600 radiocarbon years from the anoxic Cariaco
Basin provides a rare opportunity to study interannual to millenial-scale climatic change in a …

Mineralogical analysis of lake sediments

WM Last - … Change Using Lake Sediments: Physical and …, 2001 - Springer
X-ray diffractometry (XRD) is the single most important and widely used method for
mineralogical assessment of lake sediments. Its usefulness in paleolimnology stems from …

Varve chronology techniques

S Lamoureux - … Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments: Basin …, 2001 - Springer
Growing interest in past environmental conditions and the need to obtain a long-term
perspective on environmental change is leading to increasing use of high-resolution lake …