Porewater salinity reveals past lake-level changes in Lake Van, the Earth’s largest soda lake

Abstract In closed-basin lakes, sediment porewater salinity can potentially be used as a conservative tracer to reconstruct past fluctuations in lake level. However, until now, porewater salinity profiles did not allow quantitative estimates of past lake-level changes because, in contrast to the oce...

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Main Authors: Yama Tomonaga, Matthias S. Brennwald, David M. Livingstone, Olga Kwiecien, Marie-Ève Randlett, Mona Stockhecke, Katie Unwin, Flavio S. Anselmetti, Jürg Beer, Gerald H. Haug, Carsten J. Schubert, Mike Sturm, Rolf Kipfer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00371-w