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Seggedim is a remote site in NE Niger where previous studies demonstrated the presence of Holocene paleolake deposits beneath an existing sabkha. In 2005, we retrieved a 15-m core that contains a high-resolution record of early to middle Holocene environmental change. Mineralogical, chemical and petrographic data were used to infer paleoenvironmental conditions recorded by successive lake stages. An exceptionally stable lake regime existed from 10.6 to 7.3 cal ka BP. This regime, reflecting moist conditions, was characterized by deposition of continuously laminated diatomite with high organic matter content, formed under meromictic conditions, with very low detrital input. A lake regime shift occurred at 7.3 cal ka BP, interpreted as the beginning of a transition to arid conditions. This shift was initially marked by a change to predominantly clastic sedimentation, followed by increased sand input during later stages, culminating in the onset of the sabkha stage. Because of the presence of reworked organic material in the deposits, reliable radiocarbon dating of the succession of lake stages could not be achieved. 相似文献
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Lake sediments contain viable allochthonous bacteria that can be cultured and used for palaeoecological studies. To be a good palaeoindicator, a bacterium must be able to survive in sediments for long periods of time, but also be unable to reproduce in the lake bottom. Bacteria can survive the unfavourable environmental conditions in lake sediments as resting cells. The endospore is the most specialized form and gives the bacterium an extreme longevity. The oldest viable endospores isolated from lake sediments that we are aware of are about 9000 years old.Several species, mainly in the genera Thermoactinomyces, Bacillus and Clostridium, form endospores. Clostridium perfringens has been used as palaeoindicator for sewage pollution, while Thermoactinomyces vulgaris is an indicator for past agricultural activity in the boreal forest zone and a potential climatic indicator in other vegetation zones. Although isolation and enumeration of bacterial endospores from lake sediments is rather easy and has considerable potential as a powerful tool in palaeoecology, the number of studies using palaeoecological approaches is limited. 相似文献
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Aaron F. Diefendorf William P. Patterson Chris Holmden Henry T. Mullins 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2008,39(1):101-115
A 7.6-m lake sediment core from a marl lake, Lough Inchiquin, records variation in landscape evolution from 16,800 cal yrs
B.P. to 5,540 cal yrs B.P. We observe significant variations (up to 12‰) in δ
13Corg and δ
13Ccalcite values that are interpreted to reflect secular changes in lake water δ
13CDIC values that result from a regional landscape transition from barren limestone bedrock to a forested ecosystem. Lake water
δ
13CDIC values are therefore influenced by two isotopically distinct sources of carbon: terrestrial organic material (−27.1 to −31.2‰VPDB)
via oxidized soil organic matter and weathered limestone bedrock (+3.4‰VPDB). Isotope excursions in lacustrine sediment records
are forced not only by changes in productivity but also by changes in the terrestrial environment. This has profound implications
for the interpretation of paleoclimate records derived from lacustrine sediment and suggests that selection of appropriate
lakes can provide records of terrestrial change where other related records are not available. 相似文献
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Spatial and temporal distribution of diatoms in sediments of Lake Malawi,Central Africa,and ecological implications 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Lake Malawi lies in a major rift valley in Central Africa that is some 700 m deep and 550 km long. A total of 242 cores and 111 grab samples were recovered between 1984 and 1989 and form the data base for a study of diatom distribution in this lake basin. The sediments consist of homogeneous diatomites, pelagic diatomaceous muds, varved diatomite-mud couplets, turbidites, littoral sand sheets and extensive deposits of ferro-manganous nodules.Fossil diatoms show major temporal and regional contrasts between the southern, central and northern areas of the lake. A wide variety of Aulacoseira species occur in the southern lake sediments. To the north, the Nkhotakota region is generally characterised by Stephanodiscus and Aulacoseira, with occasional diatomite laminae composed of Aulacoseira or Nitzschia. The central parts of the lake show the greatest variation, with Stephanodiscus, Nitzschia and Aulacoseira all being prominent. The northern region is dominated by Aulacoseira nyassensis throughout most core sequences.Variability in these assemblages appears to be controlled by Si:P ratios, Si concentrations, turbulence and light penetration. These factors themselves are influenced by differences in the depth and duration of lake mixing due to variations in wind strength, seiches and bottom topography among different regions of the lake and from lakewide circulation patterns. 相似文献
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Evolution of the Kivu Rift,East Africa: interplay among tectonics,sedimentation and magmatism
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Douglas A. Wood Hubert J. Zal Christopher A. Scholz Cynthia J. Ebinger Irénée Nizere 《Basin Research》2017,29(Z1):175-188
The seismically and volcanically active Kivu Rift, in the western branch of the East African Rift System, is a type locale for studies of high‐elevation, humid‐climate rift basins, as well as magmatic basin development. Interpretations of offshore multi‐channel seismic (MCS) reflection data, terrestrial radar topography, lake bathymetry and seismicity data recorded on a temporary array provide new insights into the structure, stratigraphy and evolution of the Kivu rift. The Kivu rift is an asymmetric graben controlled on its west side by a ca. 110 km‐long, N‐S striking border fault. The southern basins of the lake and the upper Rusizi river basin are an accommodation zone effectively linking 1470 m‐high Lake Kivu to 770 m‐high Lake Tanganyika. MCS data in the eastern Kivu lake basin reveal a west‐dipping half graben with at least 1.5 km of sedimentary section; most of the ca. 2 km of extension in this sub‐basin is accommodated by the east‐dipping Iwawa normal fault, which bounds an intrabasinal horst. Lake Kivu experienced at least three periods of near desiccation. The two most recent of these approximately correlate to the African Megadrought and Last Glacial Maximum. There was a rapid lake level transgression of at least 400 m in the early Holocene. The line load of the Virunga volcanic chain enhances the fault‐controlled basin subsidence; simple elastic plate models suggest that the line load of the Virunga volcanic chain depresses the basin by more than 1 km, reduces flank uplift locally and broadens the depocentre. Not only do the voluminous magmatism and degassing to the lake pose a hazard to the riparian population, but our studies demonstrate that magmatism has important implications for short‐term processes such as lake levels, inflow and outlets, as well as long term modification of classic half‐graben basin morphology. 相似文献
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Medicine Lake is a highly saline meromictic lake in eastern South Dakota. A lithostratigraphic and biostratigraphic study of the late-glacial and early post-glacial sediments shows that it was a relatively deep dilute freshwater lake during the period of the Picea pollen zone. When spruce forest changed to a Betula and then to a Quercus/Ulmus woodland in the early post-glacial period, the lake water became more concentrated but remained fresh. However, during the subsequent rapid transition to prairie in the early Holocene, when Gramineae, Ambrosia, and Artemisia dominated dry-land vegetation, the freshwater diatom flora was progressively replaced by a saline assemblage characterized by Cyclotella quillensis, Chaetoceros, and eventually Cyclotella caspia. The lake became permanently saline at about 9000 yr BP. A comparison of the fossil diatom assemblages with surface-sediment samples from a range of lakes in the Dakotas indicates that the change involved an increase in conductivity from about 500 S cm–1 in the late-glacial period to > 10 000 S cm–1 in the early Holocene. This rapid change is also marked by an abrupt increase in sulphate concentration in the sediment, the first appearance of bands of gypsum crystals, and the beginning of a well-laminated core sequence that continues through the remaining sediment record. Conditions of high salinity have prevailed to the present day.Contribution 299, Limnological Research Center. 相似文献
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Little Shingobee Lake and Fen are part of the extensive network of lakes and wetlands in the Shingobee River headwaters of
northwestern Minnesota, designed to study the interactions between surface and ground waters. Prior to about 11.2 cal. ka,
most of these lakes and wetlands were interconnected to form glacial Lake Willobee, which apparently formed when a debris
flow dammed the Shingobee River. Between 11.2 and 8.5 cal. ka, the level of Lake Willobee fell as a result of breaching of
the dam, transforming the deep lake into the existing lakes and wetlands. Analyses of a 9-m core from Little Shingobee Lake
(LSL-B), and lacustrine sediments under 3.3 m of peat in a 17-m core from Little Shingobee Fen (LSF-10), show that the dominant
components are allogenic clastic material, and endogenic CaCO3 and organic matter. In both cores almost all of the iron (Fe) and manganese (Mn) are incorporated in endogenic minerals,
presumed to be X-ray amorphous oxyhydroxide minerals, that occur in significant quantities throughout the cores; almost no
Fe and Mn are contributed from detrital aluminosilicate minerals. This suggests that, for most of the Holocene, the allogenic
watershed contributions to lake chemistry were minor compared to the dissolved mineral load. In addition, prior to 3.5 cal.
ka, pollen zone boundaries coincide with large changes in lake-sediment mineralogy, indicating that both landscape and climate
processes were linked to early- and mid-Holocene lake chemistry. The pollen time series, with sequential domination by spruce,
pine, sagebrush-oak, birch-oak and, finally, white pine is typical of the region and reflects the changing location of the
prairie-forest transition zone over time. These changes in vegetation had some profound effects on the geochemistry of the
lake waters. 相似文献
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Juan Pablo Corella Adel El Amrani Javier Sigró Mario Morellón Eugenio Rico Blas Lorenzo Valero-Garcés 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2011,46(3):469-485
We present a high-resolution, multiproxy reconstruction of the depositional history of Lake Arreo, northern Spain, for the
last 60 years. We conducted sedimentological, geochemical and diatom analyses in short cores and made a detailed comparison
with regional instrumental climate data (1952–2007), limnological monitoring of the lake (1992–2008) and recent land use changes
that affect the lake catchment. Chronology is based on “floating” discontinuous varve counts and 137Cs and 14C dates. Four periods were identified in the Lake Arreo recent history: (1) prior to 1963, varved facies intercalated with
fine turbidite deposits, and diatom assemblages dominated by Cyclotella taxa indicate predominantly meromictic conditions, (2) from 1964 to 1978, permanent anoxia persisted in bottom waters, as shown
by similar facies and diatom assemblages as before, though detrital layers were coarser, (3) from 1979 to 1994, sediment delivery
to the lake increased and laminated, clastic facies were deposited, and (4) from 1995 to 2008, dominance of massive facies
and an increase in Fragilaria tenera and Achnanthes minutissima reflect relatively lower lake levels, less frequent bottom anoxia with more frequent water column mixing, similar to modern
conditions. The period 1952–1979 was a time of meromixis and varved facies deposition, and was characterized by higher rainfall
and less intense agricultural pressure in the watershed. There were two short humid periods (1992–1993 and 1996–1998) when
monitoring data show more anoxic weeks per year and relatively higher lake levels. Increased cultivation of small landholdings
in 1963, and particularly after 1979, caused a large increase in sediment delivery to the lake. The inferred lake evolution
is in agreement with monitoring data that suggest a transition from dominantly meromictic conditions prior to 1993–1994 to
a predominantly monomictic pattern of circulation since then, particularly after 2000. The synergistic effects of intensive
water extraction for irrigation and lower rainfall since 1979, and particularly since 1994, brought the long period of meromictic
conditions in Lake Arreo to an end. Water balance and sediment delivery to the lake are dominant factors that control the
limnological and mixing conditions in Lake Arreo and they must be considered in management and restoration plans. 相似文献
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Fossil plant pigments and Cladophora fragments were analyzed in a 6.53 m long sediment profile from Lake Mývatn, Iceland, covering most of its history of about 2300 years. A decrease in myxoxanthophyll (produced by Cyanobacteria) with time and an increase in the benthic Cladophora reflects a gradual shift from planktonic to benthic primary production as water depth is reduced (to 3.15 m at the core site) because of sediment accumulation.Two periods of relatively high concentrations of myxoxanthophyll coincided with relatively frequent deposition of tephra (volcanic ash) but did neither conform with tectonic activity which might have changed the water level nor the available climatic record. Sediment depth, tephra content and percent undegraded chlorophyll (an indicator of pigment preservation) together could explain 56.7% of the variation in myxoxanthophyll. It is hypothesized that temporary increases in myxoxanthophyll resulted from periodic nutrient enrichment by fresh tephra deposited in the watershed or because tephra increased the erosion of organic soil in the water catchment area.Fluctuations in Cladophora show an inverse relationship with myxoxanthophyll in the uppermost 4 m of the core, and may result from a shading effect of planktonic Cyanobacteria on the phytobenthos or competition for nutrients released by the bottom sediments. 相似文献
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X. Boës S. B. Moran J. King M. N. Cağatay A. Hubert-Ferrari 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2010,43(4):901-920
In 1999, the large surface-rupturing earthquakes of Izmit and Duzce completed a 60-year cycle that included a westward migration
of nine consecutive large earthquake failures (>50 km surface rupture), which started with the 1939 Erzincan earthquake in
eastern Turkey. In this study, we focused on seismic cycles and seismic risk predictability along the North Anatolian Fault
(NAF). Toward the west end of the NAF (26°E–32°E, i.e. Bolu), large earthquake frequency is measured from either historic
earthquake catalogs, or geologic records from isolated outcrops and marine sediment cores from the Marmara Sea. In comparison,
the eastern part of the NAF zone (32°E–42°E) is less well documented by palaeo-seismologic archives. Thus, the sediment records
of lake basins located on the eastern NAF zone constitute a unique opportunity for testing a new palaeo-seismologic approach.
To this end, we used a diverse array of complementary methods involving: (1) a 600-km transect of fault-related lakes, (2)
sedimentologic observations on cores from six lakes, and (3) a comparison between records of catastrophic sediment transfers
in lakes (i.e. radionuclide chronomarkers and erosion tracers) and historic earthquake reports. Our study indicates that lakes
along the NAF are sensitive geologic recorders of large surface-rupturing earthquakes (surface-wave magnitude (M
s) ≥ 6.9); smaller intensities are not recorded. The most responsive lake systems exhibit increases in sediment accumulation
by a factor of >40 for a >3-m strike-slip displacement (M
s ≥ 7). However, based on results from the 1939 Erzincan earthquake (M
s = 7.8) chronostratigraphic marker, large surface-rupturing earthquakes are detected only by certain lake records and not
by others. Matching multiple lake records along the NAF provides information both on the location of a surface rupture of
a paleo-earthquake as well as its magnitude. Finally, the shallow lake basins along the NAF could potentially document cycles
of large seismic events for at least the late Holocene. 相似文献
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In this paper we test the utility of the mud deposition boundary depth (mud DBD) theory (Rowanet al. 1992) as a means of maximizing sampling efficiency in paleolimnological investigations, particularly those that apply to210Pb dating. The mud DBD is defined by the relationship between near bottom wave velocity and particle threshold velocity, with wave and particle threshold theory simplified to terms of exposure and depth. Mud DBD theory can be used to define the depositional zone in lakes, and within the depositional zone defined by the mud DBD: 1) there is a high probability of obtaining a representative core, 2) variation in mass sediment accumulation rate (MSAR) is not correlated with water depth, and 3) variation in MSAR is considerably reduced from the whole lake average. This suggests that mud DBD theory can account for the effects of sediment focusing, and that the mud DBD defined depositional zone is the zone to which fine-grained sediments are focused. Finally, we have shown that to optimize sampling effort, 5 to 10 cores within the depositional zone are necessary for a reasonably precise estimate of the mean mass sediment accumulation rate. In addition, the use of mud DBD theory prior to sampling can dramatically reduce the cost associated with analyzing large numbers of cores for210Pb.This is the fifth of a series of papers to be published by this journal following the 20
th
anniversary of the first application of210Pb dating of take sediments. Dr P. G. Appleby is guest editing this series. 相似文献
12.
Andrea Lami Frank Niessen Piero Guilizzoni Julieta Masaferro Claudio A. Belis 《Journal of Paleolimnology》1994,10(3):181-197
We use palaeolimnological techniques to reconstruct the eutrophication history of a volcanic lake (Lake Albano, central Italy) over the past three centuries. The presence of annual varves down to the bottom of the core (c. 1700 A.D.) indicated the lack of bioturbation and likely long-term meromixis. Sedimentation rates were estimated by varve counts (calcite/diatom couplets), indicating a mean rate of 0.15 cm yr–1. The reconstruction of eutrophication was traced using past populations of algal and photosynthetic bacteria (through their fossil pigment), and geochemistry, as well as fossil remains of chironomids. Phaeophorbidea and the red carotenoid astaxanthin were used to detect past zooplankton development.The first sign of trophic change related to human activities is datedc. 1870 A.D. From that period onward a sharp increase of authigenic CaCO3, nitrogen, N:P ratio, and dinoxanthin, a characteristic carotenoid of Chrysophyceae and Dinophyceae, is observed.Chironomid analyses showed the near absence of a deep water fauna throughout the core length. The populations of chironomid larvae are restricted to oxygenated littoral zones. In fact, the few fossil remains found are primarily of littoral origin, representing shallow water midges that were transported to profundal waters. The reduction of total chironomid in the uppermost layers of the core is to be related to human land uses. 相似文献
13.
Weston Blake Jr. 《Journal of Paleolimnology》1989,2(1):41-54
A small lake on top of Rundfjeld, central Ellesmere Island, at an elevation of approximately 830 m, is frozen to the bottom, and the thickness of lake ice present is at least 5.45 m. Under present climatic conditions the lake does not thaw to the bottom, even during the warmest summers; i.e., 3 to 4 m of ice still floored the deepest part of the lake in mid-August 1987. A radiocarbon age determination via accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) on a sample of the filamentous green alga Mougeotia sp., recovered from the lake ice at a depth below 4 m, gave 5730±70 BP (TO-530). The date indicates that the lake was probably completely open for an unspecified period of time during the warmest part of the Hypsithermal Interval. This situation is in agreement with data derived from a variety of other sources in Ellesmere Island and adjacent Greenland. 相似文献
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Cladocera as indicators of trophic state in Irish lakes 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
We examined the impact of lake trophic state on the taxonomic and functional structure of cladoceran communities and the role
of nutrient loading in structuring both cladoceran and diatom communities. Surface sediment assemblages from 33 Irish lakes
were analysed along a gradient of total phosphorus concentration (TP; 4.0–142.3 μg l−1), using a variety of statistical approaches including ordination, calibration and variance partitioning. Ordination showed
that the taxonomic structure of the cladoceran community displayed the strongest response to changes in lake trophic state,
among 17 measured environmental variables. Trophic state variables chlorophyll-a and TP explained about 20% of the variance in both cladoceran and diatom assemblages from a set of 31 lakes. Procrustes analysis
also showed significant concordance in the structure of cladoceran and diatom communities (P < 0.001). Thus, lake trophic state affects the taxonomic structure of both primary and secondary producers in our study lakes.
We also found a significant decrease in relative abundance of taxa associated with both macrophytes and sediments, or sediments
only, along the TP gradient (r = −0.49, P = 0.006, n = 30), as well as an increase in the proportion of the planktonic group (r = 0.43, P = 0.017, n = 30). This suggests that cladoceran community structure may also be shaped by lake trophic state indirectly, by affecting
habitat properties. We found no relationship between lake trophic state and the relative abundance of each of three cladoceran
groups that display different body size. We compared community structure between bottom and top sediment samples in cores
from six Irish lakes. Results revealed similar trajectories of nutrient enrichment over time, as well as a strong shift in
cladoceran functional structure in most systems. This study confirms that Cladocera remains in lake sediments are reliable
indicators of lake trophic state. This study also highlights the fact that taxonomic and functional structure should both
be considered to account for the multiple factors that shape cladoceran communities. 相似文献
15.
Martin F. Hilfinger IV Henry T. Mullins Adam Burnett Matthew E. Kirby 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2001,26(3):293-305
A series (N = 12) of short (< 1 m) sediment cores were collected from meromictic Green Lake in Fayetteville, New York to investigate potential anthropogenic impacts on the watershed during historic time and environmental change over the past ~ 2,500 years. Stratigraphic data document an abrupt basinwide change during the early 1800's A.D. from brown laminated sediments to grey varved sediments separated by a transition zone rich in aquatic moss. Deforestation of the region by European settlers during the early 1800's A.D. resulted in a flux of nutrients and increased biological productivity followed by a 7fold increase in sediment accumulation rates. Elemental geochemical data document the anthropogenic loading of lead to the to the lake basin via atmospheric fallout. Stable oxygen isotope (18O calcite) data also provide evidence for an abrupt shift in the isotopic composition of lake water ~ 150–200 years ago. This isotopic shift could have been a local phenomenon related to an increased supply of summer enriched precipitation following removal of forest vegetation, or it might have reflected broader scale climatic changes. We hypothesize that the 18O calcite shift was the result of the polar front jet stream migrating from a more southerly prehistoric position to a contracted, northerly configuration ~ 150–200 years ago. Such a shift could have been natural, associated with the end of the Little Ice Age or it may have been anthropogenically forced. 相似文献
16.
P. S. Minyuk J. Brigham-Grette M. Melles V. Ya. Borkhodoev O. Yu. Glushkova 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2007,37(1):123-133
The inorganic geochemistry of sediments from El’gygytgyn Lake shift in phase with interpreted paleoclimatic fluctuations seen
in the record over the past 250 ka. Warm periods, when the lake was seasonally ice free and fully mixed, are characterized
by increased concentrations of SiO2, CaO, Na2O, K2O, and Rb, by decreased contents of TiO2, Fe2O3, Al2O3, and MgO, and by a lower chemical index of alteration (CIA). Increased levels of SiO2 reflect increases in limnic productivity whereas many of the other elements and the CIA likely reflect increased hydrological
activity coincident with an increase in coarser sand and silt content and a decrease in clay mineral content. For cold/cooler
periods when perennial lake ice cover lead to a stratifed water column and anoxic bottom waters, the opposite is generally
observed suggesting a decrease in hydrological activity and an increase in post-depositional chemical alteration.
Peaks in P2O3 and MnO, coincident with an increased abundance of vivianite, suggest possible linkages to the paleoproductivity of local
fish fauna regardless of climate change across the region surrounding Lake El’gygytgyn. Strontium is high in concentration
during warmer intervals and may also be linked to paleoproductivity. Enrichment of the post-Eemian portion of the sediment
record in niobium, and yttrium appears independent of glacial–interglacial change; rather it may reflect a gradual shift in
the geomorphology of the catchment, particularly the hydrology of large alluvial fans along the western side of the lake.
In contrast to some lake records, changes in Zr concentration over time suggests only a weak, if any, increase in eolian sediment
supply during colder periods.
This is the first in a series of eleven papers published in this special issue dedicated to initial studies of El'gygytgyn Crater Lake and
its catchment in NE Russia. Julie Brigham-Grette, Martin Melles, Pavel Minyuk were guest editors of this special issue. 相似文献
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Hydrodynamic change recorded by diatoms in sediments of Liuxihe Reservoir, southern China 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Diatoms are used widely for paleolimnological studies in lakes, but their use for studying the environmental history of reservoirs
has not been tested extensively. Reservoirs have hydrodynamic characteristics intermediate between those of rivers and lakes.
This study assessed the utility of diatom assemblages as recorders of long-term changes in hydrodynamics and spatial gradients
in Liuxihe Reservoir, an impoundment in southern China. Four sediment cores were collected in the reservoir, from the riverine,
transition and lacustrine zones. Each core was sectioned at 2-cm intervals to investigate the stratigraphic distribution of
accumulated diatoms. Varve counting was used to develop a chronology for one of the cores. The unique characteristics of Liuxihe
Reservoir, including its large size, great depth, long narrow morphology and strong thermal stratification for 10 months of
the year, limit secondary sedimentation processes and preserve the varves, enabling development of an accurate chronology.
Damming profoundly altered the physical environment of the former river, especially in the lacustrine zone, where the change
is clearly illustrated by diatoms in the sediment. Diatom abundance increased as a consequence of nutrient enrichment after
construction of the dam in 1958, but later decreased as the new impoundment stabilized. After damming, relative abundance
of Cyclotella increased along with a simultaneous decrease of Navicula and Achnanthes in the lacustrine zone, most significantly in 1963, when Cyclotella replaced Navicula as the dominant genus. This switch was indicative of a general shift from a lotic to a lentic habitat. A longitudinal gradient
was apparent in the patterns of sedimentation and diatom accumulation at different sites in the reservoir, with diatom abundance
highest in the transition zone. In the long term, water discharge from the reservoir showed a weak, but significant negative
correlation with diatom abundance in the lacustrine zone (r = −0.320, P = 0.03). In summary, diatom assemblages in the Liuxihe Reservoir sediments recorded past changes in hydrodynamics, suggesting
that paleolimnological study of some impoundments is feasible. 相似文献
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Response of alpine chironomid communities (Lake Chuna, Kola Peninsula, northwestern Russia) to atmospheric contamination 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
A short sediment core from the deepest part of an alpine lake (Lake Chuna, Kola Peninsula, northwestern Russia), covering about the past 200 yrs of sediment accumulation, was analysed for chironomid head capsule remains. The lake has been receiving acidic precipitation and heavy metals loading from the atmosphere since the 1940's. A total of 22 chironomid taxa were recorded. The most important taxa were typical elements of oligotrophic lakes, i.e.Micropsectra insignilobus, Paratanytarsus penicillatus, Stictochironomus spp. and Heterotrissocladius marcidus. Based on the cluster analyses results for the reconstructed environmental variables and chironomid communities, three developmental stages were distinguished from the lake history: (1) Natural ontogeny stage (before ~1945); (2) Initial stage of anthropogenic ontogeny (~1945-~1982); and (3) Anthropogenic ontogeny stage (~1982-~1996). During the first period, the changes in the chironomid fauna were characterized as an anthropogenically undisturbed community, with M. insignilobus dominating (46-66%). The changes during the second period reflected the initial phase of anthropogenic succession associated with the beginning of acidification and heavy metal pollution. The main species showed opposite distributional patterns in this period; the abundance of the group M. insignilobus/Stictochironomus spp. decreased, whereas the abundance of P. penicillatus/H. marcidus increased. The third period was characterized by a major shift in the faunal assemblages, from M. insignilobus to other dominant species including P. penicillatus (19-30%). The increases of Orthocladiinae relative abundance and total organic content in the uppermost sediment layers may be explained by a decrease in lake productivity. The decreases of cold-stenothermal taxa Stictochironomus spp. and M. insignilobus in the uppermost sediment layers can be explained by the global warming during the 20th century. The lake ecosystem is likely to be affected by both inputs of airborne contaminants and climate changes. 相似文献
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Krystyna Szeroczyńska Andrzej Tatur Jan Weckström Michał Gąsiorowski Agnieszka M. Noryśkiewicz Elwira Sienkiewicz 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2007,38(1):25-47
A 2.5-m-long sediment core was retrieved from Lake Somaslampi, a small lake located in a kame field on the north slope of
the Scandes Mountains in Finnish Lapland. Holocene environmental changes were inferred from the lithological, geochemical,
pollen, diatom and Cladocera records stored in the lake sediment. The chronology was based on six radiocarbon AMS dates supported
by a palynological control chronology. The sediment profile consists of a glacial sedimentary sequence truncated by a lacustrine
one. A hiatus, tentatively correlated with climate cooling and advances of glaciers during the 8.2 ka yrs BP “Finse cooling
Event”, occurs between these sequences. The glacial sequence was composed of fluvioglacial clastics, smoothly changing into
glacio-lacustrine diatomaceous ooze deposited in a meromictic proglacial lake that covered the kame field. The meromixis was
probably caused by the greater depth of the lake, the extended ice-cover, and the microbial mats covering large areas of the
lake bottom. A distinct change in the biota of the glacio-lacustrine sediments indicates higher trophic conditions than during
deposition of the fluvioglacial clastics. The late-Pleistocene vegetation was characterised by subarctic birch tundra vegetation
(Betula–Salix–Ericaceae) with low biodiversity gradually changing to Betula–Pinus dominance in the early Holocene. The lake was deep and had a diatom inferred pH ~ 7 indicated also by the dominance of planktonic
Cladocera.
The base of the lacustrine sediment sequence (6,650–6,300 cal. BP) consisted of loess-rich sediment indicating an increase
in eolian activity. This is also supported by the pollen record, which is dominated by more long-distant taxa such as Alnus and Pinus, and by the increased C/N ratio of the sediment. After the initial meromictic phase of the lake, an abrupt lowering of the
water level occurred. Lake Somaslampi was isolated from the larger Pre-Lake Somas basin and became holomictic, shallow, much
warmer and more productive, until the deterioration of climate around 3,000 yr BP and the increased input of clastics from
the tundra soils. The vegetation followed the general climatic trend by gradually changing from the dominance of Betula and Pinus to the dominance of more tundra-related vegetation like Poaceae and Cyperaceae. However, the higher frequencies of planktonic
Cladocera and centric diatoms in the most recent sediments indicates higher trophic conditions, increased turbulence and a
prolonged ice-free period, which can possibly be linked to the recent climate warming especially in areas of higher altitude
and latitude. 相似文献
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Genki I. Matsumoto Yukinori Tani Koji Seto Tomoko Tazawa Masumi Yamamuro Takahiro Watanabe Toshio Nakamura Tetsuo Takemura Satoshi Imura Hiroshi Kanda 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2010,44(2):677-693
Antarctic climate changes influence environmental changes at both regional and local scales. Here we report Holocene paleolimnological
changes in lake sediment core Sk4C-02 (length 378.0 cm) from Lake Skallen Oike in the Soya Kaigan region of East Antarctica
inferred from analyses of sedimentary facies, a range of organic components, isotope ratios of organic carbon and nitrogen,
and carbon-14 dating by Tandetron accelerator mass spectrometry. The sediment core was composed of clayish mud (378.0–152.5 cm)
overlain by organic sediments (152.5 cm-surface). The age of the surface and the core bottom were 150 (AD1950-1640) and ca.
7,030 ± 73 calibrated years before present (cal BP), respectively, and the mean sedimentation rate was estimated to be 0.55 mm/year.
Multi-proxy analyses revealed that the principal environmental change in the core is a transition from marine to lacustrine
environments which occurred at a depth of 152.5 cm (ca. 3,590 cal BP). This was caused by relative sea level change brought
about by ongoing retreat of glaciers during the mid-Holocene warming of Antarctica, and ongoing isostatic uplift which outpaced
changes in global (eustatic) sea level. The mean isostatic uplift rate was calculated to be 2.8 mm/year. The coastal marine
period (378.0–152.5 cm, ca. 7,030–3,590 cal BP) was characterized by low biological production with the predominance of diatoms.
During the transition period from marine to freshwater conditions (152.5-approximately 135 cm, ca. 3,590–3,290 cal BP) the
lake was stratified with marine water overlain by freshwater, with a chemocline and an anoxic (sulfidic) layer in the bottom
of the photic zone. Green sulfur bacteria and Cryptophyta were the major photosynthetic organisms. The Cryptophyta appeared
to be tolerant of the moderate salinity and stratified water conditions. The lacustrine period (approximately 135 cm-surface,
ca. 3,290 cal BP-present) was characterized by high biological production by green algae (e.g. Comarium clepsydra and Oedegonium spp.) with some contributions from cyanobacteria and diatoms. Biological production during this period was 8.7 times higher
than during the coastal marine period. 相似文献