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Author : Greengrass, K.; Last, W.M.; Deleqiat, J. and Sukhan, S.
Date : 1999.
Title : Waldsea Lake revisited: Another look at the recent history of one of western Canada's best-studies meromictic lake.
Publication : Prairie Perspectives: Geographical Essays. Edited by: R. Koster. Department of Geography, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.
Issue : 2:
Page(s) : 89-115.
Abstract
Walsea Lake is a small (~ 5 km2), meromictic lake located in central Saskatchewan about 100 km east of Saskatoon. It is also one of the most intensely studied saline lacustrine environments in western Canada. Past sedimentological, geochemical, and paleolimnological research efforts have been fruitful because of the high salinity, meromictic nature of the water column, and the fact that the basin is topographically and hydrologically closed, factors which lead to exceptional preservation of fine lamination coupled with a diverse endogenic and authigenic mineral suite. Previous investigators, although recognizing a complex Holocene history of the lake, concluded that the past few thousand years in the basin to have been relatively uneventful. This is surprising considering the magnitude of environmental changes that have taken place in the region over the last millennium. The objective of this current research project is to apply new high resolution paleolimnological techniques in an effort to decipher the chemical and hydrologic fluctuations that have occurred in Waldsea over the past several thousand years and to understand the driving mechanisms of these fluctuations.
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