Porewater salinity: Key to reconstructing 250,000 years of Lake Van’s history
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 - 12:02
in Earth & Climate
The sediments of Lake Van in Eastern Anatolia (Turkey) are a valuable climate archive. Now, using the salinity measured in sediment porewater, scientists have reconstructed the huge lake-level fluctuations that occurred over the past 250,000 years. This approach – based on simple physical concepts – is likely to be more widely applied in the future.