Symposium
Ravello, Giugno 1991

Preface (S. Hicks, U. Miller, M. Saarnisto)

Introduction, Laminae Fomation in Long- and Short-Term Perspectives (U. Miller)

I. Laminated sediments, their structure, formation and applications in dating
The Study of Environmental Dynamics by Means of Laminated Sediments: Results from Switzerland (A. F. Lotter and M. Sturm)
The Swedish Clay Varve Chronology (B. Ringberg)
Late Quaternary Development in the Nothwest Baltic Sea. An Introduction (T. Andrén and J. Risberg)
Annually Laminated Late-Glacial Sediments in the Eastern Baltic Countries and the Evolution of Ice-dammed Lakes (A. Raukas)
The Use of Laminated Sediments to test Methods of Dating and Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction (F. Oldfield, P. R. J. Crooks, P. G. Appleby and J. Renberg)
Improving the Accuracy of Radiocarbon Dates Using AnnuallY Laminated Sediments (P. E. O’Sullivan)
Laminated Sediments in Studier of Pleistocene Interglacial and Interstadial Deposits (A. M. Robertsson)
Annually Laminated Sediments at Valle di Castiglione – Rome, Italy (D. Magri, B. Narcisi)

II. The significance of laminated sediments in studying environmental changes caused by man
Laminated Sediments in South Germany from the Neolithic to the Hallstat Period (J. Merkt and H. Muller)
Sedimentary Records of Human Occupation in the Eastem Finnish Lake District (H. Simola)
Charcoal Analysis of Varved Lake Sediments (H. E. Wright Jr. and J. S. Clark)
Records of Bacteria Endospores in Varved Lake Sediments (I. Renberg, M. Nilsson)
A Detailed Record of Vegetation History in the East of England (S. M. Peglar)
Decreases in Beech Pollen in the Prealpine Foreland: The Potential of Varved Sediments (B. Ammann)
Lake Sediments in Bulgaria – Palaeoenvironmental Records (E. D. Bozilova, S. B. Tonkov)