Topic VIII - Type of lake: synthesis and advances > VIII-1-Tectonics, climate, ecology and geomorphology in rift lakes

Conveners

1. Mathieu Schuster (Institut de Terre & Environnement, CNRS, Strasbourg, France)
2. Michael McGlue (University of Kentucky, USA)
3. Jenni Scott (Mount Royal University, Canada)
4. Alexis Nutz (CEREGE, Aix-Marseille Université, IRD, INRAE, Aix en Provence, France)
5. Leandro Domingos Luz (University of Minnesota, USA)
6. Tumaini Kamulali (University of Arizona, USA)

From deep-water long-lived lakes like Lake Tanganyika in the western East African Rift Valley (Neogene-Quaternary) to shallow rift lakes like those in France from the Paleogene, the sedimentary records of rift lakes can preserve 100s of thousands to even millions of years of evidence for changing climate and ecology. The long successions also inform us about tectonics, volcanism, and geomorphology as they relate to heat sources, erosion, sediment input, and lake-dam barriers due to volcanic flows. The dynamic balance between these factors ultimately determines lake chemistry, response to climate variability, authigenic and clastic facies compositions, (paleo)ecology, and stratigraphy. This session aims to explore the interplay between these major controls on extant rift lakes and ancient rift lake successions, with a focus on recognizing their variable influences and changing impacts through time.