Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. An Introduction to Basin Analysis, Coring, and Chronological Techniques Used in Paleolimnology

   • William M. Last, John P. Smol

   Pages 1-5

3. Basin Analysis Techniques

   1. Applications of Seismic Sequence Stratigraphy in Lacustrine Basins

      • Christopher A. Scholz

      Pages 7-22

   2. Ground-Penetrating Radar Applications in Paleolimnology

      • Brian J. Moorman

      Pages 23-47

   3. Shoreline and Basin Configuration Techniques in Paleolimnology

      • Dorothy Sack

      Pages 49-71

4. Core Acquisition, Archiving, and Logging Techniques

   1. Sediment Core Collection and Extrusion

      • John R. Glew, John P. Smol, William M. Last

      Pages 73-105

   2. Coring and Drilling Equipment and Procedures for Recovery of Long Lacustrine Sequences

      • Suzanne A. G. Leroy, Steve M. Colman

      Pages 107-135

   3. Sediment Logging Techniques

      • Bernd Zolitschka, Jens Mingram, Sjerry Van Der Gaast, J. H. Fred Jansen, Rudolf Naumann

      Pages 137-153

   4. Logging of Magnetic Susceptibility

      • Norbert R. Nowaczyk

      Pages 155-170

5. Chronostratigraphic Techniques

   1. Chronostratigraphic Techniques in Recent Sediments

      • P. G. Appleby

      Pages 171-203

   2. 14C Chronostratigraphic Techniques in Paleolimnology

      • Svante Björck, Barbara Wohlfarth

      Pages 205-245

   3. Varve Chronology Techniques

      • Scott Lamoureux

      Pages 247-260

   4. Luminescence Dating

      • Olav B. Lian, D. J. Huntley

      Pages 261-282

   5. Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Dating in Lacustrine Environments

      • Bonnie A. B. Blackwell

      Pages 283-369

   6. Use of Paleomagnetism in Studies of Lake Sediments

      • John King, John Peck

      Pages 371-389

   7. Amino Acid Racemization (AAR) Dating and Analysis in Lacustrine Environments

      • Bonnie A. B. Blackwell

      Pages 391-450

   8. Tephrochronology

      • C.S.M. Turkey, J.J. Lowe

      Pages 451-471

6. Back Matter

   Pages 473-548

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• Lake sediments
• Sediment
• Varve
• fluvial
• lacustrine
• paleolimnology
• hydrogeology

"This book is an authoritative, well organized and generally accessible manual for the practicing paleolimnologist. It provides guidance on how to plan a drilling campaign, interpret the morphology of the lake basin, recover and log cores and place the sediments within a chronological framework."
(T.C. Partridge, Climatology Research Group, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa in Journal of Paleolimnology, 30:4)

• Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

  William M. Last

• Department of Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

  John P. Smol

William M. Last is a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at University of Manitoba (Canada) and is co-editor of the Journal of Paleolimnology. John P. Smol is a professor in the Biology Department at Queen's University (Canada), with a cross-appointment at the School of Environmental Studies. He co-directs the Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL). Professor Smol is co-editor of the Journal of Paleolimnology and holds the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change.

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