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Sediments recovered from lakes have a considerable downcore variability of their physical parameters. In addition to palaeobiological information, such parameters provide a detailed record of palaeoenvironmental changes. New logging instruments now make available continuous, high resolution, and non-destructive physical sediment property data such as sediment colour, gamma ray density, P-wave velocity, magnetic susceptibility or elemental composition. Since many years these techniques have been used for marine sediment core investigations. Here we introduce these methods to palaeolimnological research and provide examples for their applications with laminated Tertiary and Quaternary lake sediments.
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Zolitschka, B., Mingram, J., Van Der Gaast, S., Jansen, J.H.F., Naumann, R. (2002). Sediment Logging Techniques. In: Last, W.M., Smol, J.P. (eds) Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments. Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47669-X_7
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