Palaeoenvironmental history of the Holocene volcanic crater lake Lago d'Averno (central southern Italy) inferred from aquatic mollusc deposits

Autor: F. W. Welter-Schultes, I. Richling
Rok vydání: 2000
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Zdroj: Journal of Quaternary Science. 15:805-812
ISSN: 1099-1417
0267-8179
DOI: 10.1002/1099-1417(200012)15:8<805::aid-jqs555>3.0.co;2-y
Popis: The mollusc record from Lago d'Averno, central southern Italy, provides a detailed 1600-yr record of changes in water quality in response to bradyseismic movements and salinity fluctuations. Bradyseismic vertical land movements and human impact in Roman times led to several transgressions from the Mediterranean Sea, 1 km distant, making the lake a valuable resource for documenting the effect of episodic marine transgressions of a freshwater lake. Low-oxygen-tolerant freshwater molluscs suggest that, at around 900–500 bc the lake had a slowly decreasing medium freshwater quality, resulting from contamination of volcanic origin. Disappearance of the obligate freshwater snails and transgression of low-salinity-tolerant marine species indicate that, after 500 bc, continuous subsidence resulted in episodic marine transgressions from the nearby sea. The construction of a canal that connected the lake with the sea, in 37 bc, is marked by a considerable increase in the number of shells and by arrival of brackish-water-intolerant marine species. Species diversity increased considerably when the area was partly depopulated towards the end of the Roman Empire around ad 400. When the land was slightly uplifted around ad 600–750, the water quality of the lake became less favourable for marine molluscs. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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