Paleolimnology Of European Maar Lakes (lecture Notes In Earth Sciences)

Worldwide interest is currently focussed on past global changes. The objective here is to document environmental variations of the past to help understand present day processes and provide background data for computer-modelling aimed at predicting the future. This new book brings together sedimentological, geochemical, palaeomagnetic and palaeobiological proxy-data from maar lakes of the three European volcanic areas of Westeifel (Germany), Massif Central (France) and the Italian Peninsula (Italy). The high resolution, in parts even annual, of the studied lacustrine sedimentary records give detailed evidences of palaeoclimatic variations, volcanic activities and human perturbations as well as their biotic response within the lakes and its catchment areas. Along with papers on the formation of maars and with overview articles on the three studied volcanic areas, this up-to-date book will be of interest to geologists, climatologists, geophysicists, archaeologists, and anyone interested in the history of the earth during the last 250,000 years. Maars of the Westeifel, Germany....Pages 1-13 Syn- and post-eruptive mechanism of the Alaskan Ukinrek Maars in 1977....Pages 15-60 Maars and maar lakes of the Westeifel Volcanic Field....Pages 61-80 Maars of northern Auvergne (Massif Central, France): State of knowledge....Pages 81-94 Palaeoenvironmental investigations on long sediment cores from volcanic lakes of Lazio (central Italy)—An overview....Pages 95-107 Geophysical mapping of organic sediments....Pages 109-116 Preliminary uniboom survey of the Monticchio Lakes (southern Italy)....Pages 117-118 Sonar investigations in the Laghi di Monticchio (Mt. Vúlture, Italy)....Pages 119-128 Climatic and tectonic effects on sedimentation in central Italian volcano lakes (Latium)—Implications from high resolution seismic profiles....Pages 129-148 Sediments and basin analysis of Lake Schalkenmehrener Maar....Pages 149-161 Organic carbon contents of sediments from Lake Schalkenmehrener Maar: A paleoclimate indicator....Pages 163-171 Basin analysis for selected time-frames using sedimentation rates in Lake Meerfelder Maar (Westeifel FRG)....Pages 173-194 Turbidites in the sediments of Lake Meerfelder Maar (Germany) and the explanation of suspension sediments....Pages 195-208 Paleoclimate reconstruction at the Pleistocene/Holocene transition—A varve dated microstratigraphic record from Lake Meerfelder Maar (Westeifel, Germany)....Pages 209-222 Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Late- and Postglacial sedimentary record of Lake Weinfelder Maar....Pages 223-235 Sedimentology and paleoenvironment from the Maar Lac du Bouchet for the last climatic cycle, 0-120,000 years (Massif Central, France)....Pages 237-275 Lago Grande di Monticchio (southern Italy) a high resolution sedimentary record of the last 70,000 years....Pages 277-288 A multidisciplinary study of the Vico Maar sequence (Latium, Italy): Part of the last cycle in the Mediterranean area. Preliminary results....Pages 289-304 Environmental geology and geochemistry of lake sediments (Holzmaar, Eifwl, Germany)....Pages 305-316 Geochemistry of Lago Grande di Monticchio, S. Italy....Pages 317-332 Tephrochronology of core C from Lago Grande di Monticchio....Pages 333-348 A palaeomagnetic study of maar-lake sediments from the Westeifel....Pages 349-365 Preliminary 50m palaeomagnetic records from Lac du Bouchet, Haute Loire, France....Pages 367-376 Palaeomagnetic investigations of Lago Grande di Monticchio, southern Italy....Pages 377-392 Late-Glacial/Holocene changes of the climatic and trophic conditions in three Eifel maar lakes, as indicated by faunal remains. I. Cladocera....Pages 393-420 Late-glacial/Holocene changes of the climatic and trophic conditions in three Eifel maar lakes, as indicated by faunal remains. II. Chironomidae (Diptera)....Pages 421-433 Ostracoda (Crustacea) and trichoptera (Insecta) from Late-and Postglacial sediments of some European maar lakes....Pages 435-439 Oligocence dinoflagellate-cysts in Quaternary freshwater sediments of Eifel maars....Pages 441-446 Tertiary maars of the Hocheifel Volcanic Field, Germany....Pages 447-465 Some aspects of Cenozoic maar sediments in Europe: the source-rock potential and their exceptionally good fossil preservation....Pages 467-476 Palaeoecological implications from the sedimentary record of a subtropical maar lake (Eocene Eckfelder Maar; Germany)....Pages 477-484 Arthropods from the Eocene Eckfelder Maar (Eifel, Germany) as a source for paleoecological information....Pages 485-489 Flowers from the Middle Eocene of Eckfeld (Eifel, Germany)— First results....Pages 491-497 Initial results on the importance of a flora from the Middle Eocene of Eckfeld (Eifel, W.-Germany)....Pages 499-503 International Maar Deep Drilling Project (MDDP) a challenge for earth sciences?....Pages 505-509 This monograph brings together sedimentological, geochemical, palaeomagnetic and palaeobiological proxy-data from Maar lakes of the three European volcanic areas of Westeifel, Germany, the Central Massif of France and the Italian peninsula.