Detrital layers marking flood events in recent sediments of Lago Maggiore (N. Italy) and their comparison with instrumental data

• Published in: Freshwater biology Vol. 57; no. 10; pp. 2076 - 2090
• Main Authors: KÄMPF, LUCAS, BRAUER, ACHIM, DULSKI, PETER, LAMI, ANDREA, MARCHETTO, ALDO, GERLI, STEFANO, AMBROSETTI, WALTER, GUILIZZONI, PIERO
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.10.2012; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: detrital layer; flood events; Freshwater; lake level; lake sediments; river discharge; Italy

Summary 1. A succession of 20 detrital layers was detected in five short cores from the Pallanza Basin in the western part of Lago Maggiore (Italy) by combining thin‐section analyses and high‐resolution micro‐X‐ray fluorescence (μ‐XRF) scanning techniques. The detrital layers range in thickness from...