Pollution of Lakes and Rivers: A Paleoenvironmental Perspective

Preface to second edition. About author. 1 There is no substitute for water. 2 How long is long?. 3 Sediments: an ecosystem's memory. 4 Retrieving sedimentary archive and establishing geochronological clock: collecting and dating sediment cores. 5 Reading records stored in sediments: present is a key to past. 6 The paleolimnologist's Rosetta Stone: calibrating indicators to environmental variables using surface-sediment training sets. 7 Acidification: finding smoking gun. 8 Metals, technological development, and environment. 9 Persistent organic pollutants: industrially synthesized chemicals hopping across planet. 10 Mercury - the metal that slipped away. 11 Eutrophication: environmental consequences of…