ISOTOPES IN LAKE SEDIMENTS
ISOTOPES IN LAKE SEDIMENTS
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10.1007/1-4020-2504-1_04
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2006
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M. Leng;A. Lamb;T. Heaton;J. Marshall;B. Wolfe;Matthew D. Jones;J. Holmes;C. Arrowsmith
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M. Leng;A. Lamb;T. Heaton;J. Marshall;B. Wolfe;Matthew D. Jones;J. Holmes;C. Arrowsmith
AbstractPalaeolimnology, the interpretation of past environment/climate conditions from sediments accumulated in lake basins, is a rapidly expanding area of research (Last and Smol 2001a; 2001b; Smol et al. 2001a; 2001b). This is largely due to the explosion of research into climate change over recent decades, and also because lakes provide us with widespread, continuous records of terrestrial environmental change. Stable isotopes have become an essential part of palaeolimnology, since the work of McCrea (1950) and Urey et al. (1951) highlighted the potential for oxygen isotope compositions to be used for palaeotemperature reconstruction. The technique has been applied to both lacustrine sediments and fossils, and stratigraphic changes in δ18O are commonly attributed to changes in lake water isotope composition which can be dependent on temperature, air mass source area and/or precipitation/evaporation ratio. Pioneering works include: Stuiver (1970), Fritz and Poplawski (1974), Fritz et al. (1975), Eicher and Siegenthaler (1976), and reviews have been provided by Buchardt and Fritz (1980), Siegenthaler and Eicher (1986) and more recently by Ito (2001), Schwalb (2003) and Leng and Marshall (2004).