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stable or falling water levels, and permit differen tiation between gradual and sudden transgression The level of Lake Ontario was long assumed to of the shoreline. Vegetational succession reflects have risen at an exponentially decreasing rate shoreline transgression and increasing water solely in response to differential isostatic rebound depth as upland species are replaced by emergent of the St. Lawrence outlet since the Admiralty aquatic marsh species. If transgression continues, Phase (or Early Lake Ontario) 11 500 years B. P. these are in turn replaced by floating and sub (Muller & Prest, 1985). Recent work indicates merged aquatic species, commonly found in water that the Holocene water level history of Lake to 4 m depth in Ontario lakes, below which there Ontario is more complex than the simple rebound is a sharp decline in species richness and biomass model suggests. Sutton et al. (1972) and (Crowder et al. , 1977). This depth varies with Anderson & Lewis (1982, 1985) indicate that physical limnological conditions in each basin. periods of accelerated water level rise followed by Because aquatic pollen and plant macrofossils are temporary stabilization occurred around 5000 to locally deposited, an abundance of emergent 4000 B. P. The accelerated water level rise, called aquatic fossils reflects sedimentation in the littoral the 'Nipissing Flood', was attributed to the cap zone, the part of the basin shallow enough to ture of Upper Great Lakes drainage. support rooted vegetation.
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Table of contents (16 papers)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Pluvial and Non-Pluvial Lake Stages, and Physical Forcing Functions in Intermontane Basin Lakes in Western United States
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Lake Levels, Glacial Meltwater Inflows, and Paleoclimates of the Early Laurentian Great Lakes
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Problems and Controversies in Paleolimnology
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Commentary and response
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Lake Development in Moist, North-Temperate Areas
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Species Origins and Endemism in an Ancient Lake
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Back Matter
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Book Title: Paleolimnology and the Reconstruction of Ancient Environments
Book Subtitle: Paleolimnology Proceedings of the XII INQUA Congress
Editors: Ronald B. Davis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2655-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0571-2Published: 28 February 1990
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7697-5Published: 05 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2655-4Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 256
Topics: Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Hydrogeology, Sedimentology