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The CASPIA project: diatoms, salt lakes, and environmental change

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The Climate and Salinity (CASPIA) Project is concerned with diatoms as environmental indicators in inland waters and their use in reconstructing salinity and major ion composition from fossil diatom assemblages in lake sediments. By comparing saline lake diatom floras from around the world the project aims to establish a common, harmonised approach to sample collection, diatom identification and nomenclature, and to develop techniques for numerical analysis and data storage.

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  1. S. Juggins

    Present address: Department of Geography, University of Newcastle, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

  2. S. C. Fritz

    Present address: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University, 31 Williams Drive, 18015, Bethlehem, PA, USA

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  1. Environmental Change Research Centre, Department of Geography, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AP, London, UK

    S. Juggins & R. W. Battarbee

  2. Limnological Research Center, University of Minnesota, 310 Pillsbury Drive S.E., 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    S. C. Fritz

  3. Laboratoire d'Hydrologie et de Géochimie Isotopique, Université de Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 504, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France

    F. Gasse

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This is the first in a series of papers published in this issue on the paleolimnology of arid regions. These papers were presented at the Sixth International Palaeolimnology Symposium held 19–21 April, 1993 at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Dr A. R. Chivas served as guest editor for these papers.

Palliser Triangle Global Change Project Contribution Number 19.

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Juggins, S., Battarbee, R.W., Fritz, S.C. et al. The CASPIA project: diatoms, salt lakes, and environmental change. J Paleolimnol 12, 191–196 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00678020

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