From s.leroy@QUB.AC.UKTue Apr 29 14:38:44 1997 Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 17:16:19 +0000 From: Suzanne Leroy To: Multiple recipients of list PALEOLIM Subject: sedimentation rates hello, please find here after the answers I have received. I have the feeling that I am still missing quite a few important references. Cheers, Suzanne ======================= From: psanford@facstaff.wisc.edu (Patricia Sanford) Here is a reference to a Miocene deposition rate that you might find interesting. Smith, G.R. and Elder, R.L.(1985) Environmental interpretation of burial and preservation of Clarkia fishes, pages 85-93 in Smiley, C.J. (ed.) Late Cenozoic history of the Pacific Northwest: Interdisciplinary studies on the Clarkia fossil beds of Northern Idaho. Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: San Francisco, California. see also Smiley, C.J. and Rember, W.C. (1985) Physical setting of the Miocene Clarkia Fossil Beds, Northern Idaho, same volume as above. Patricia Sanford Center for Climatic Research 1225 West Dayton Street psanford@facstaff.wisc.edu (608)262-0554 ====================================== From: Michael Binford Here are references to several papers that I have published that have lake sediment accumulation rates. I assume that this is what you mean when you say sedimentation rates. Binford, M.W., M. Brenner and D.R. Engstrom. 1992. Temporal sedimentation patterns in the nearshore littoral of Lago Huinaimarca. Ch II.3, pp 29-39 in C. DeJoux and A. Iltis (eds.), Lake Titicaca: A Synthesis of Limnological Knowledge. Monographiae Biologicae, Vol. 68. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht. 573 pages. Binford, M.W. ,S.A. Norton and J.S. Kahl. 1993. Interpretation of 210Pb profiles and verification of the CRS dating model in PIRLA project lake sediment cores. Journal of Paleolimnology. 9:275-296. Brenner, M., B.W. Leyden, and M.W. Binford. 1990. Paleolimnology of two shallow lakes in the Guatemalan savannas. Journal of Paleolimnology 4:239-252. Binford, M.W. 1990. Calculation and Uncertainty Analysis of 210Pb Dates for PIRLA project cores. Journal of Paleolimnology 3:253-267. Brenner, Mark and Michael W. Binford. 1988. A sedimentary record of humandisturbance from Lake Miragoane, Haiti. Journal of Paleolimnology. 1:85-97. Binford, Michael W. and Mark Brenner. 1986. Dilution of 210Pb by organic sedimentation in lakes of different trophic states, and application to studies of sediment-water interactions. Limnology and Oceanography 31:584-595 ============= From: mwinkler@facstaff.wisc.edu (Marge Winkler) The first reference that comes to mind is : Webb and Webb (1988). Rates of sediment accumulation in pollen cores from small lakes and mires of eastern North America. Quaternary Research 30:284-297. I may have other field or reference material but I can't get to it for another few weeks. By then you will probably have had many answers. Marge Winkler Center for Climatic Research ========= From: "Z. Yu" Here is a reference you may want to have a look. R.S. Webb and T. Webb III. 1988. Rates of sewdiment accumulation in pollen cores from small lakes and mires of eastern North America. Quaternary Research, 30: 284-297. Zicheng Yu, Botany Dept., Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON M5S-2C6; Phone:(416)586-5609; Fax:(416)586-5516; E-mail:yuzi@utcc.utoronto.ca ====================== From: bsimmer@UOFT02.UTOLEDO.EDU (Brenda Simmers) I work with mercury deposition rates to aquatic systems. I have references that examine the more recent (about 120 years back) sedimentation rates using lead-210 dating. There is also a new (or at least to me) service called OVID that searches the last 6 years of bioabstracts. I've found it very helpful. If you are interested in this info, I'll send it to you. The address for OVID is.. http://olc2.wright.edu:80/ovidweb/ovidweb.cgi?T=dbList&D=biobaxx&S=1266 ======= From: "Charles G. (Jack) Oviatt" You could extract some estimates of sedimentation rates in Lake Bonneville from some of my papers (Journal of Paleolimnology 1994, 11:19-30; GSA Bulletin 1994, 106:133-144; Palaeo-3 1992, 99:255-241). If you need more precise data (including unpublished estimates of variability in sed rates through time), please let me know. I don't think I have addressed sedimentation rates in Lake Bonneville specifically in any of these publications, but the data are available. I don't know if a paper has ever been written on lacustrine sedimentation rates summarizing data for all facies (if you discover one, please let me know!). Charles G. (Jack) Oviatt Ph. 913-532-6724 Department of Geology Fax 913-532-5159 Thompson Hall joviatt@ksu.ksu.edu Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506-3201 ======================== From: "William M. Last" <104404.2233@compuserve.com> We've been doing a fair bit of work on modern sedimentation rates in the saline lakes of western Canada. In fact, we now have over a decade of sed trap data for one of the basins out there (Freefight Lake). Some of the preliminary observations have been published in various articles. Probably the best ones to look at are: Last, W. M., 1993. Rates of sediment deposition in a hypersaline lake in the northern Great Plains, western Canada. International Journal of Salt Lake Research, vol 2, p. 47-58. Last, W. M., 1994. Deep-water evaporite mineral formation in lakes of western Canada. In: Sedimentology and Geochemistry of Modern and Ancient Saline Lakes. SEPM Special Pub. 50 (Renaut R. and Last, W. M. eds), p.51-59. Last, W. M., 1993. Geolimnology of Freefight Lake: an unusual hypersaline lake in the northern Great Plains of western Canada. Sedimentology vol. 40, p. 431-448. These papers, in turn, have several references and summary comments from other researchers. Much more will be coming out soon on the Western Canada lakes because we've just finished a "big" multidisciplinary 5 year study on 12 other lakes in the region with very good/tight 14C and 210Pb rate data. On more general perspective, Einsele summarized some of the literature on lacustrine sed rates in his textbook (Sedimentary Basins, 1992 I think; Springer-Verlag); ditto for John Warren's text (Evaporite Sedimentology; Prentice Hall) and Peter Sonnenfeld's book (Brines and Evaporites; Academic Press). =============== ----------------------- Dr. Suzanne A. G. LEROY Centre for Palaeoecology, School of Geosciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, N. Ireland. Ph: +44-1232-335 143 and 245 133 ext. 3978; fax: +44-1232-321 280; e-mail: s.leroy@qub.ac.uk.