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2018

Champlain Sea

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From Sea To Lake: The Depositional History Of Saint Albans Bay, Vt, Usa, Matthew Kraft Jan 2018

From Sea To Lake: The Depositional History Of Saint Albans Bay, Vt, Usa, Matthew Kraft

Graduate College Dissertations and Theses

Sediment accumulated in lakes stores valuable information about past environments and paleoclimatological conditions. Cores previously obtained from Saint Albans Bay, located in the Northeast Arm of Lake Champlain, VT record the transition from the Champlain Sea to Lake Champlain. Belrose (2015) documented the presence of a peat horizon separating the sediments of the Champlain Sea from those of Lake Champlain. Initially, this layer was thought to comprise the transition from the marine environment of the Champlain Sea to a freshwater wetland. However, based on the results from this study, the transition between marine and freshwater conditions is thought to be …