The palaeolimnology of Lake Mývatn, northern Iceland: plant and animal microfossils in the sediment

SUMMARY. Sediment from a precursor of the 2300‐year old Lake Mývatn was traced by diatoms in pseudocrater scoria. This lake (Mývatn I) was deeper than the present Mývatn but similar in size. Tephrochronology confirms an equal age of the Ytrlflói and Sydrifloi basins of the present Mývatn. Diatom suc...

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Published in:Freshwater Biology
Main Author: EINARSSON, ÁRNI
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Wiley 1982
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.1982.tb00603.x
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