Silica depletion in Lake Victoria: Sedimentary signals at offshore stations

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 118-130

  Verschuren, Dirk ^a,d   Edgington, David N ^b   Kling, Hedy J ^c   Johnson, Thomas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c FRESHWATER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biogenic silica; Eutrophication; Lake Victoria; Paleolimnology; Silica depletion

Indexed keywords

DIATOM PRODUCTION; LAKE SEDIMENT; SILICA DEPLETION;

AFRICA; LAKE VICTORIA;

EID: 0031954191     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0380-1330(98)70804-4     Document Type: Article

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