Modern and Ancient Lake Sediments

Copyright © 1978 The International Association of Sedimentologists

Modern and Ancient Lake Sediments

Editor(s): Albert Matter, Maurice E. Tucker

Published Online: 29 JUN 2009

Print ISBN: 9780632002344

Online ISBN: 9781444303698

DOI: 10.1002/9781444303698

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      Front Matter (pages i–vi)

    2. Modern and Ancient Lake Sediments: An Introduction (pages 1–6)

      Albert Matter and Maurice E. Tucker

    3. Saline Lakes and their Deposits: A Sedimentological Approach (pages 7–41)

      Lawrence A. Hardie, Joseph P. Smoot and Hans P. Eugster

    4. Late Pleistocene–;Holocene Evolution of the Kivu–Tanganyika Basin (pages 43–55)

      Peter Stoffers and R. E. Hecky

    5. Holocene Carbonate Evolution in Lake Balaton (Hungary): A Response to Climate and Impact of Man (pages 57–81)

      German Müller and Frank Wagner

    6. Permian Saar-Nahe Basin and Recent Lake Constance (Germany): Two Environments of Lacustrine Algal Carbonates (pages 83–107)

      Andreas Schäfer and Karl R. G. Stapf

    7. Origin of the Carbonate Sediments in the Wilkins Peak Member of the Lacustrine Green River Formation (Eocene), Wyoming, USA (pages 109–127)

      Joseph P. Smoot

    8. Late Neogene Sedimentation in the Black Sea (pages 129–145)

      Kenneth J. Hsü and Kerry Kelts

    9. Turbidites and Varves in Lake Brienz (Switzerland): Deposition of Clastic Detritus by Density Currents (pages 147–168)

      Michael Sturm and Albert Matter

    10. Lacustrine Facies in the Pliocene Ridge Basin Group: Ridge Basin, California (pages 169–187)

      Martin H. Link and Robert H. Osborne

    11. Lacustrine Sedimentation in an Evaporitic Environment: The Ludian (Palaeogene) of the Mormoiron Basin, Southeastern France (pages 189–203)

      Georges Truc

    12. Triassic Lacustrine Sediments from South Wales: Shore-Zone, Evaporites and Carbonates (pages 205–224)

      Maurice E. Tucker

    13. Permo-Triassic Lacustrine Deposits in the Eastern Karoo Basin, Natal, South Africa (pages 225–239)

      D. E. van Dijk, D. K. Hobday and A. J. Tankard

    14. Subaqueous Clastic Fissure Eruptions and other Examples of Sedimentary Transposition in the Lacustrine Horton Bluff Formation (Mississippian), Nova Scotia, Canada (pages 241–257)

      Reinhard Hesse and Harold G. Reading

    15. A Proterozoic Lacustrine Interlude from the Zambian Copperbelt (pages 259–278)

      Harry Clemmey

    16. Economic Significance of Playa Lake Deposits (pages 279–290)

      C. C. Reeves

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