Special Issues

The Depositional Record, Volume 10, Issue 5, (November 2024)

Edited by Cecilia Andrea Benavente, Kevin Bohacs and Sila Pla-Pueyo

Significant progress has been made in understanding lake basin evolution through climatic and tectonic changes using sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, geochemistry, hydrology, and watershed characteristics to interpret three main lake basin types: overfilled, balanced-filled and underfilled, including fluvio-lacustrine basins. Groundwater constraints, however, have been mostly overlooked. The incorporation of subsurface water flow factors into lake basin analysis has led to the realization that more diverse and complex facies associations can result from its influence, particularly in balanced-fill and underfilled basins. Better understanding of paleohydrogeology of the lacustrine systems result from integrated analysis, including sediment and water delivery pathways, components of potential accommodation and conditions in the lake water column studied in modern lakes and ancient lake strata representing deep-time lacustrine basins. This special issue intends to act as a pivotal point for future studies on limnogeology. Our goal is to improve our understanding of water delivery pathways (precipitation, overland, groundwater) into fluvio- lacustrine basins, in order to update the existing models for them. The integration of different variables, such as sediment and water delivery pathways, with the incorporation of subsurface flow; and components of potential accommodation and conditions in the lake water column may help us better constrain controls and factors affecting the evolution of these systems through time and space.

Journal of Paleolimnology, Volume 59, Issue 2 (February 2018)

Edited by Scott Starratt and Michael Rosen

The 6th International Limnogeology Congress (ILIC6) of the International Association of Limnogeology (IAL) was held in Reno, Nevada, USA 15–19 June, 2015. The successful congress brought together a wide variety of academic, government, and industry participants from 20 countries and six continents. The highpoint of the four-day meeting were eight keynote addresses highlighting cutting-edge research in paleolimnology and limnogeology. These addresses were often the focal point of discussions throughout the congress. Among the topics covered in the more than 140 poster presentations included the use of biological proxies to identify paleoenvironmental change due to natural variability and human impact, the evolution of mineral formation in saline lakes, sedimentation deposition processes in Mesoproterozoic lakes, the role of groundwater in lacustrine hydrology, and organic and inorganic contaminant histories in modern lakes. This special issue concentrates on Holocene lakes depositional processes, and is the one of two special issues.

Journal of Paleolimnology, Volume 59, Issue 1 (January 2018)

Edited by Michael Rosen and Scott Starratt

The 6th International Limnogeology Congress (ILIC6) of the International Association of Limnogeology (IAL) was held in Reno, Nevada, USA in 15–19 June 2015. The four day meeting was highlighted by eight keynote addresses highlighting cutting-edge research in limnology, paleolimnology, and limnogeology. More than 140 posters were presented on topics ranging from contaminant histories of lakes, the role of groundwater in lake processes, mineral formation in lake sediments, terminal lake evolution, paleoclimate and paleohydrologic processes, volcanic emissions from lakes, as well as the biological and chemical evolution of lake systems. The ages of the lacustrine systems presented ranged from Mesoproterozoic Era saline lake sediments to modern lakes. This special issue, which concentrates on pre-Holocene lakes, is the first of two special issues.

Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 66 (April 2013)

​Edited by Melanie J. Leng, Phillip A. Barker, Antje Schwalb

Isotope geochemistry is increasingly an essential part of environmental and climate change research and now routinely contributes to our understanding of many critical environmental problems, which span the whole of Earth system science and not least in palaeolimnology and limnogeology. The International Association of Limnogeology organizes an international conference every four years. The fifth International Limnogeology Congress, ILIC V, was held in Konstanz, Germany, from August 31st – September 3rd, 2011. During this congress we identified several papers where isotope methodologies were used in a particularly novel way, or provided an ‘added value’ data set. Many of these are brought together here in a series of state-of-the-art papers dealing with various aspects of isotopes in lake sediment archives.

Sedimentary Geology, Volume 222, Issues 1–2 (December 2009)

Edited by Lluís Cabrera, Elisabeth H. Gierlowski Kordesch, Ana M. Alonso-Zarza, Concha Arenas Abad

The thirteen papers assembled in this thematic issue of Sedimentary Geology are part of the research presented at ILIC 4. The objectives of this issue were mainly to provide new data and views on lacustrine depositional processes and system evolution in some recent and ancient case studies. The geographic distribution and time range of the contributions are wide, and includes southwestern Europe (with representation from the Mesozoic, Tertiary, Neogene–Quaternary, and Recent records of Spain and Italy), Asia (Miocene and Quaternary from southern China-Tibet), Africa (Quaternary of Kenya), South America (Triassic of Argentina), and Oceania (Miocene of New Zealand). Irrespective of their geographic location, the contributions can be grouped by their varied scope into four major thematic groups: (1) Recent and ancient lacustrine records studied from a sedimentologic perspective, (2) tectonic settings of lacustrine systems, (3) paleoclimatic records in lacustrine deposits, and (2) paleobiologic records and microbial mineral precipitation in lakes.