Event deposits in lake sediments provide invaluable chronicles of geodynamic and climatic
natural hazards on multi-millennial timescales. Sediment archives are particularly useful for …

Records of the frequency and magnitude of floods are needed on centennial or millennial
timescales to place increases in their occurrence and intensity into a longer-term context …

Now in its second edition, Pollution of Lakes and Rivers provides essential insights into
present-day water quality problems from an international perspective. Explains simply and …

The freshwater reservoir effect can result in anomalously old radiocarbon ages of samples
from lakes and rivers. This includes the bones of people whose subsistence was based on …

Concerns about the regional impact of global climate change in a warming scenario have
highlighted the gaps in our understanding of the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM, also …

Reconstructions of the Holocene geomagnetic field and how it varies on millennial
timescales are important for understanding processes in the core but may also be used to …

Dating recent peat deposits (ie, past} 300 yrs of peat accumulation) has emerged as an
important yet challenging task for estimating rates of organic matter accumulation and …

Extreme storm events in the coastal zone are one of the main forcing agents of short-term
coastal system behavior. As such, storms represent a major threat to human activities …

Radiocarbon dated chronologies are the most extensively applied dating technique when
investigating the last∼ 45,000 years. In lake and marine sediments, a single macrofossil or …

Plant macrofossil analysis is being increasingly used in Quaternary science. Quantitative
palaeoecological macrofossil analysis was developed by WA Watts in the United States …