Lake sediments around the Antarctic Peninsula : archives of climatic and environmental changes

• Main Author: Zale, Rolf
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Umeå universitet 1993
• Subjects: Lake sediments; Antarctic Peninsula; radiocarbon dating; climatic and environmental changes; sediment chemistry; Physical Geography; Naturgeografi; Antarctic; Boeckella; Byers; Byers peninsula; Deception Island; Guano; Hidden Lake; Hope Bay; Lake Boeckella; Livingston Island; Ross Island; South Shetland Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; James Ross Island
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-96890

Lakes and lake sediments from four areas around the Antarctic Peninsula are described. The concentrations of trace metals in sediment are found to be a useful tool in distinguishing between the different sedimentary phases during a transition from marine to limnic environment. A tephrochronology bas...