1. Local variability of sedimentation rate in Lake Arendsee, Germany
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Bertram Boehrer, Olaf Buettner, Burkhard W. Scharf, Conrad Kopsch, and Frank Niessen
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0106 biological sciences ,Hydrology ,Lake morphometry ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,Sedimentation rate ,Sediment ,Lake Arendsee ,010501 environmental sciences ,Sedimentation ,Aquatic Science ,01 natural sciences ,Oxygen distribution ,Deposition (geology) ,Resuspension ,Dry weight ,Marl ,Littoral zone ,Stratification ,Transect ,Eutrophication ,Geology ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
We measured the thickness and the dry weight of recently deposited sediment along several transects across Lake Arendsee in order to quantify the sedimentation rate and its local variability. As a time marker, we used an artificial marl layer that was deposited by a remediation program in the year 1995. A portion of the sediment deposited during the year was transported from the littoral and the top of the submerged hills to the foot of the slope, where we found the greatest deposition. Within the same lake, the deposited sediment layer varied by a factor of 4 between minimal and maximal values over the same time periods. Lake Arendsee is a holomictic and eutrophic lake with depletion of oxygen in summer time.
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- 2010
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