Modern and Ancient Lake Sediments: An Introduction

Modern and Ancient Lake Sediments

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-6

  Matter, Albert ^a,b   Tucker, Maurice E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Correlation of thick detrital layers (turbidites); Late Pleistocene Holocene evolution of the KivuTanganyika Basin; Preservation of algal filaments within the precipitated calcite; Re evaluation of ancient floodplain, aeolian, deltaic or paralic formations; Saline lakes and their deposits; Subaerial tufas; Various fabrics of the algal balls

Indexed keywords

CALCITE;

FLOOD PLAINS; LATE PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE; SALINE LAKE; SUBAERIAL TUFAS; VARIOUS FABRICS OF THE ALGAL BALLS;

LAKES;

EID: 84872812292     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444303698.ch1     Document Type: Editorial

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