Lake Systems from the Ice Age to Industrial Time

– Inhalt – Sommaire.- Lake Systems from Ice Age to Industrial Time, Preface of the guest-editors.- Bedrock, Quaternary sediments and recent fault activity in central Lake Neuchâtel, as derived from high-resolution reflection seismics.- High-resolution seismicstratigraphy of an Holocene lacustrine delta in western Lake Gene-va (Switzerland).- Sédi-mentation récente sur le delta du Rhône (Lac Léman) à partir de profils de sismique réflexion à haute résolution.- Imaging Molasse and Quater-nary Sediments in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, with 3-D High-Res-olution Seismic Reflection Methods: A Case Study.- Bottom-current and wind-pattern changes as indicated by Late Glacial and Holocene sediments from western Lake Geneva (Switzerland).- A 600-year sedimentary record of flood events from two sub-alpine lakes (Schwendiseen, Northeastern Switzerland).- 60 years of glaciolacustrine sedimentation in Steinsee (Sustenpass, Switzerland) compared with historic events and instrumental meteorological data.- Map-ping Sediment Accumulation Rate by using Volume magnetic Sus-ceptibility Core Correlation in a contaminated Bay (Lake Geneva, Switzerland).- Ecoulement de l’eau dans le fond du Léman après circula-tion dans le cône sédimentaire profond de la Dranse.- Sediment distribution on a current-dominated lake delta (Versoix delta, Lake Geneva, Switzerland).- Evolution des assemblages de Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) pendant le Tardiglaciaire dans le Lac du Lautrey (Jura, France): essai de reconstruction paléoenvironnementale.- Recent changes in sedimentaryorganic matter from Lake Neuchâtel (Switzerland) as traced by Rock-Eval pyrolysis.- Les conditions d’établissement et de conservation des sites préhistoriques littoraux de la rive sud du lac de Neuchâtel et du lacde Morat: prospection systématique et reconstitution des rives anciennes.- Sediment contami-nation in a river reservoir (Wettingen Reservoir, Switzerland): Pre-sent situation and history.