Lake Pavin : history, geology, biogeochemistry, and sedimentology of a deep meromictic maar lake /: history, geology, biogeochemistry, and sedimentology of a deep meromictic maar lake. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Télesphore Sime-Ngando, Pierre Boivin, Emmanuel Chapron, Didier Jézéqual, Michel Meybeck, editors.
• Editors: Sime-Ngando, Télesphore; Boivin, Pierre; Chapron, Emmanuel; Jezequel, Didier; Meybeck, M (Michel)
• Contents: Preface; Contents; Contributors; Part I: Limnology, History and Comparative Legends; 1: Pavin, the Birthplace of French Limnology (1770-2012), and Its Degassing Controversy (1986-2016); 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Analysis of Pavin Actors, History and Perception Through an Interdisciplinary and Intercomparative Approach; 1.3 Pavin, a Typical Maar-Lake Above any Contamination Source; 1.3.1 Pavin General Features; 1.3.2 Pavin Compared to Other Lakes of the Cézallier Lake District; 1.3.3 Pavin Compared to Other European Maar-Lakes; 1.3.3.1 Eifel Lakes; 1.3.3.2 Italian Lakes 1.4 Pavin Scientific Exploration (1770-1985)1.4.1 Chevalier's Expedition (1770); 1.4.2 Lecoq, the Great Auvergne Naturalist, Normalizes Pavin… with Fishes (1847-1871); 1.4.3 The First Golden Age of Science at Pavin: Berthoule, Delebecque, Martel, Bruyant (1880-1914); 1.4.3.1 Clermont Botanists and Zoologists Establish the Limnological Station at Besse; 1.4.3.2 André Delebecque at Pavin (1892); 1.4.3.3 Edouard-Alfred Martel at Creux de Soucy (1892); 1.4.4 Pavin Meromixis Discovery by Olivier and Pelletier (1950-1960s) 1.5 Pavin Acquires a Status of International Field Laboratory (1965-2000)1.5.1 International Projects Select Pavin as a Pristine Lake (1965-1975); 1.5.2 Pavin, a Laboratory for Innovative Lake Research (1965-1986); 1.6 Maar Lakes Degassing Evidence in Cameroun and Italy; 1.6.1 Nyos (21 August 1986) and Monoun (15 August 1984) Degassing Events and Their Effects on Populations; 1.6.2 Ancient Degassing Events in Italian Maar-Lakes, Albano and Monticchio; 1.6.2.1 The Albano Catastrophic Degassing and Spillover Event in Latium (398 BC) 1.6.2.2 Monticchio Lakes (Southern Italy) and Their Pioneer Degassing Studies, 1777-18381.7 Sensory Grid of Degassing in Maar-Lakes; 1.8 Pavin Degassing Controversy (1986-2016); 1.9 Conclusions; References; 2: Pavin, A Rich but Fragmented History (200 AD-2016); 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Finding Pavin Puzzle Pieces; 2.3 Pavin's History Highlights; 2.3.1 Antiquity: A Pompeian Millstone Retrieved from Pavin Waters in 1909; 2.3.2 Early Antique and Medieval Worship Near Pavin, on the Vassivière Mountain; 2.3.3 Lacus pavens Terrifies the Whole Region Throughout the Sixteenth Century 2.3.3.1 The Terrible Explosion Witnessed at Vassivière by Besse People (28 August 1551 Pavin Event)2.3.3.2 A Hazardous Abyss, Generating Storm, Thunder and Hail, Presented to Charles IX (1566); 2.3.3.3 Pavin Painted on the First Realistic Landscape Picture in France (1571-1579); 2.3.3.4 Pavin Marvelous Response to a Thrown Stone in Belleforest's Cosmographia Universalis (1575); 2.3.3.5 Lacus pavens, the Terrifying Lake, Is the Original Pavin Name (Banc 1605); 2.3.4 The Admirable and Terrifying Pavens Gets Famous During the Seventeenth Century
• Publisher Details: Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 551.210944; Life sciences; Maars -- France; Crater lakes -- France; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology; Crater lakes; Maars; Science -- Life Sciences -- Biology -- Microbiology; Science -- Life Sciences -- Biology -- Marine Biology; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geology; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Limnology (freshwater); Biogeography; Aquatic biology; Microbial ecology; Marine Sciences; Ecology; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; France; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319399614; 3319399616
• Related ISBNs: 9783319399607; 3319399608
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 11, 2016).
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