Lake sediment records of atmospheric pollution in the Romanian Carpathians

Bolătău sediment record – Chronology, microsedimentology and potential for a high resolution multimillennial paleoenvironmental proxy archive

“…Reconstructing past climate conditions throughout ample time frames is becoming increasingly necessary in order to place current climate changes into a broader context. Lacustrine sediments typically integrate and preserve environmental signals into their structure and composition, therefore geochemical and sedimentological analyses of these archives have become an instrumental tool for monitoring environmental change by providing an important longer-term temporal perspective and enhancing environmental assessment (e.g., Smol, 1992;Anderson and Battarbee, 1994;Anderson, 1995;Smol, 2008;Akinyemi et al, 2013). A wide range of lake sediment-based analysis techniques pertaining to several research fields (i.e.…”

Rich fen development in CE Europe, resilience to climate change and human impact over the last ca. 3500 years

“…A suite of mineral magnetic measurements were made with samples tightly packed into 10 cm 3 plastic pots: low field mass specific magnetic susceptibility (χlf) using a Bartington (Hutchinson, 1995;Akinyemi et al, 2013).…”

Climate change in the Carpathian-Balkan Area. Advancing research and cooperation

“…2 and 7-15). The results provide an assessment of the potential of these records as retrospective indicators of atmospheric pollution patterns and current dynamics (Akinyemi et al 2013). Braun et al (2013) applied bulk sediment geochemical proxies to reconstruct lateglacial and early Holocene climatic changes from a glacially scoured basin (Lake Brazi, 1740 m a.s.l.)…”

“…Buczkó et al 2009). Rose et al (2009) published a pollution history study from a lake in the Retezat Mountains at the western extremity of the Southern Carpathians, but no paleoenvironmental studies exist for the rest of the mountain range, despite the abundance of suitable sites (Akinyemi et al, 2013).…”