Contributors ................................................... xi
Preface ....................................................... xxv
Acknowledgments ............................................. xxvii
Selected International Journals on Lakes, Dams and
Reservoirs ................................................... xxix
Acidification in Lakes .......................................... 1
Thomas Hellstrцm
Africa, Lakes Review ............................................ 1
Rhodes W. Fairbridge (Deceased) and Lars Bengtsson
Age Determination of Lake Deposits 6 Barbara Wohlfarth
Alpine Lakes .................................................... 7
Reginald W. Herschy
Alternative Stable States in Shallow Lakes ...................... 9
Anders Hargeby and Irmgard Blindow
Amazon Lakes ................................................... 13
Edgardo Manuel Latrubesse
Antarctic Lakes ................................................ 26
Dominic A. Hodgson
Antarctic Subglacial Lake Ellsworth ............................ 31
John Woodward, Martin J. Siegert, Andy M. Smith and George
Royston-Bishop
Antarctic Subglacial Lake Vostok ............................... 34
George Royston-Bishop, Martin J. Siegert and John Woodward
Antarctic Subglacial Lakes ..................................... 37
Martin J. Siegert, John Woodward and George Royston-Bishop
Aquatic Plants ................................................. 39
Stewart J. Clarke
Arab Region, Lakes and Reservoirs .............................. 43
Mamdouh Shahin (Deceased) and Lars Bengtsson
Aral Sea ....................................................... 53
Peter O. Zavialov
Arch Dams, Development from Cut-Stone Arches to Modern Design .. 56
Hubert Chanson and D.P. James
Arctic Lakes ................................................... 68
Bent Hasholt
Artificial Wetlands ............................................ 69
Jesper Persson
Asia, Lakes Review ............................................. 69
Rhodes W. Fairbridge (Deceased) and Lars Bengtsson
Australia, Climate and Lakes ................................... 73
H.A. Bridgman and Brian V. Timms
Australia, Coastal Paleolakes of "Swanland" .................... 80
Rhodes W. Fairbridge (Deceased) and Lars Bengtsson
Baikal, Lake ................................................... 83
Laurent Touchart
Balaton Lake in Hungary ........................................ 91
János Józsa, László Rákóczi and Tamás Krámer
Baltic Sea Basin, Since the Latest Deglaciation ................ 95
Thomas Andren
Basin-Scale Internal Waves .................................... 102
Damien Bouffard and Leon Boegman
Bathymetrical Survey of the Scottish Freshwater Lochs,
1897-1909 ..................................................... 107
Robert W. Duck
Beaver Dams and Ponds ......................................... 110
Jean-Marie M. Dubois and Leo Provencher
Bengal Basin, Sediment Sink ................................... 113
Asok Kumar Bhattacharya, Aparajita Bhattacharya, Santosh
Kumar Sarkar and Mousumi Chatterjee
Brownification of Lakes ....................................... 117
Wilhelm Graneli
Carbon Cycle in Lakes ......................................... 121
Amy Myrbo
Caribbean-Central America, Lakes Review ....................... 125
Rhodes W. Fairbridge (Deceased)
Carinthia Lakes and Reservoirs in Austria ..................... 128
Hans Sampl
Caspian Sea ................................................... 136
Mikhail V. Bolgov
Chad Lake ..................................................... 141
Jacques Lemoalle, Jean-Claude Bader and Marc Leblanc
Chilika Lake .................................................. 148
Santosh Kumar Sarkar, Aparajita Bhattacharya, Asok Kumar
Bhattacharya, Kamala Kanta Satpathy, Ajit Kumar Mohanty
and Satya Panigrahi
Chinese Lakes ................................................. 156
Linus T. Zhang and Xiaoliu Yang
Circulation Processes in Lakes ................................ 160
Lars Bengtsson
Classification of Lakes from Hydrological Function ............ 163
Lars Bengtsson
Classification of Lakes from Origin Processes ................. 164
Lars Bengtsson
Climate Change Effects on Lakes ............................... 165
Thorsten Blenckner
Climate Change: Factors Causing Variation or Change in
the Climate ................................................... 167
Cintia Bertacchi Uvo
Coastal Lagoons ............................................... 171
Magnus Larson
Cyanobacteria (Blue-Green Algae) .............................. 174
Alan Howard
Dam Failures: Impact on Reservoir Safety Legislation in
Great Britain ................................................. 177
J. Andrew Charles
Dams and Reservoirs in Macedonia .............................. 186
Ljubomir Tancev
Dams and Reservoirs, Role ..................................... 191
Reginald W. Herschy
Dams, Classification .......................................... 200
Reginald W. Herschy
Dams, Flood Protection, and Risk .............................. 207
Klas Cederwall
Dead Sea ...................................................... 212
Isaac Gertman
Deltaic Swamps ................................................ 216
Reginald W. Herschy
Dew Ponds ..................................................... 217
Reginald W. Herschy
Dissolved Oxygen in Ice-Covered Lakes ......................... 220
Arkady Terzhevik and Sergey Golosov
Double-Diffusive Convection in Lakes .......................... 223
Bertram Boehrer
Droughts and Water Management in England and Wales: With
Particular Reference to Reservoirs and Lakes .................. 224
Terry Marsh
Ecological Threat to Lakes and Reservoirs ..................... 233
Reginald W. Herschy
English Lakes ................................................. 234
Reginald W. Herschy
Estuarine Hydrology ........................................... 238
Eric Wolanski, Fernando Andutta and Eric Delhez
Europe, Lakes Review .......................................... 249
Rhodes W. Fairbridge (Deceased) and Lars Bengtsson
Eutrophication in Fresh Waters: An International Review ....... 258
Malcolm Farley
Everglades, Florida, USA ...................................... 270
Fred H. Sklar and Thomas D. Fontaine
Fens, England ................................................. 273
Reginald W. Herschy
Finnish Lakes ................................................. 276
Esko Kuusisto
Finnish Lakes, Trends and Regional Differences of
Phytoplankton ................................................. 278
Lauri Arvola and Marko Jдrvinen
Floodplain Wetlands: Focusing on India ........................ 282
Mogali J. Nandan
Forth and Clyde and Union Ship Canals, UK ..................... 285
Reginald W. Herschy
Geneva Lake ................................................... 287
Ulrich Lemmin
Gippsland Lakes ............................................... 290
Brian V. Timms
Glacier Jцkulhlaup ............................................ 292
Jonas Eliasson
Great Lake Processes: Thermal Structure, Circulation and
Turbulent Diffusion Processes ................................. 298
Yerubandi R. Rao
Great Lakes, North America .................................... 303
Reginald W. Herschy
Great Salt Lake ............................................... 314
Reginald W. Herschy
Hazards ....................................................... 317
Simon Dobby
Health Aspects of Lakes and Reservoirs ........................ 320
David Bradley
Hydrodynamics and Circulation of Fjords ....................... 327
Anders Stigebrandt
Hydrodynamics of Very Shallow Lakes ........................... 344
Lars Bengtsson
Hydropower .................................................... 355
Hans Bergh
Ice Covered Lakes ............................................. 357
Lars Bengtsson
Ice Formation on Lakes and Ice Growth ......................... 360
Lars Bengtsson
Icelandic Lakes, Physical Characteristics ..................... 362
Hrund Ó. Andradottir
Indian Lakes .................................................. 368
V.K. Dwivedi
Initial Mixing of Pollutants .................................. 411
Magnus Larson
Internal Seiches .............................................. 411
Ulrich Lemmin
Japanese Lakes ................................................ 415
Takashi Asaeda and Ryuichiro Shinohara
Katse Dam: Lesotha Highlands Water Project .................... 421
Reginald W. Herschy
Kingairloch Hydroelectric Scheme .............................. 423
Reginald W. Herschy
Kis-Balaton and its Effect on Lake Balaton Water Quality ...... 424
Istvдn Tátrai and Kaiman Mátyás
Ladoga Lake and Onego Lake (Lakes Ladozhskoye and
Onezhskoye) ................................................... 429
Nikolai Filatov and Leonid Rukhovets
Lake Ice ...................................................... 432
Esko Kuusisto
Lake Monster .................................................. 437
Reginald W. Herschy
Lake Outbursts ................................................ 444
Andrélo Robitaille and Jean-Marie M. Dubois
Lake Restoration .............................................. 455
Martin Sondergaard, Erik Jeppesen and Henning S. Jensen
Lake Sediments ................................................ 458
Reginald W. Herschy
Hydrological Sizing of Water Supply Reservoirs ................ 346
Adebayo J. Adeloye
Lake Shore Nomenclature .......................................
Leo Provencher and Jean-Marie M. Dubois
Lake Surveying ................................................ 468
Peter Ulriksen
Lakes as Archives of Earth History ............................ 470
Barbara Wohlfarth
Lakes on Earth, Different Types ............................... 471
Lars Hдkanson
Large Dams and Environment .................................... 472
Peder Hjorth
Large Dams, Statistics and Critical Review .................... 475
Peder Hjorth and Lars Bengtsson
Laurentian Great Lakes, Interaction of Coastal and Offshore
Waters ........................................................ 479
Yerubandi R. Rao and David J. Schwab
Light and Primary Production in Lakes ......................... 485
Donald C. Pierson
Limnological Studies in Lake Erken Sweden ..................... 492
Kurt Pettersson
Loch Katrine .................................................. 495
Reginald W. Herschy
Lough ......................................................... 499
Reginald W. Herschy
Lough Neagh ................................................... 499
Reginald W. Herschy and P.G. Holland (Deceased)
Macedonian Lakes .............................................. 503
Stanislava Dodeva
Maracaibo Lake ................................................ 509
Rhodes W. Fairbridge (Deceased)
Marib Dam and Irrigation Project .............................. 509
Rajib Chakraborty
Mass Curve and Reservoir Design ............................... 515
Hans Bergh
Memphremagog, Lake ............................................ 516
Armand LaRocque and Jean-Marie M. Dubois
Meromictic Lakes .............................................. 519
Ken J. Hall and Thomas G. Northcote
Myponga Reservoir, South Australia: The Influence of
Nutrients, Phytoplankton, Pathogens, and Organic Carbon on
Water Quality ................................................. 530
Leon van der Linden, Matthew R. Hipsey, Michael D. Burch
and Justin D. Brookes
Nahuel Huapi, Lake ............................................ 541
Rhodes W. Fairbridge (Deceased)
Nasser Lake ................................................... 541
Mohamed L. Balah
Nile Basin, Lakes ............................................. 554
J.V. Sutcliffe
North Delta Lakes, Egypt ...................................... 562
Mohamed I. Balah
Nutrient Balance, Light, and Primary Production ............... 578
Thomas Hellstrцm
Okeechobee, Lake, Florida, USA ................................ 581
Paul V. McCormick and R. Thomas James
Origin of Lakes and Their Physical Characteristics ............ 585
Lars Hдkanson
Paleolakes .................................................... 593
Reginald W. Herschy
Paleolimnology ................................................ 594
Barbara Wohlfarth
Peipsi Lake in Estonia/Russia ................................. 596
Kiilli Kangur, Andu Kangur and Anto Raukas
Phosphor Exchange Sediment-Water .............................. 607
Kurt Pettersson
Playa Lake Chains: The Example of the Yenyening Lakes of
the Upper Avon River Catchment of Western Australia ........... 608
Jenny A. Davis and Paul A. Carling
Poopц Lake, Bolivia ........................................... 616
Lars Bengtsson
Reservoir and Lake Trap Efficiency ............................ 619
S.W. Trimble and B. Wilson
Microorganisms in Lakes and Reservoirs ........................ 524
Reginald W. Herschy
Reservoir Capacity ............................................ 626
Reginald W. Herschy
Mixing in Lakes ............................................... 527
Magnus Larson
Reservoir Sedimentation ....................................... 628
Bijan Dargahi
Reservoir Sedimentation in Australia under Extreme
Conditions .................................................... 649
Hubert Chanson
Reservoirs in Great Britain ................................... 656
Reginald W. Herschy
Reservoirs, Early British History ............................. 660
Reginald W. Herschy
Reservoirs, Multipurpose Use of Small Reservoirs .............. 662
Jean Albergel
Restoration of Urban Lakes in the NE Musi Basin, Hyderabad,
India ......................................................... 668
V.V.S. Gurunadha Rao
Riverine Thermal Bar .......................................... 673
Eddy Carmack
Russian Lakes ................................................. 674
Nikolai Filatov and Tatyana Gronskaya
Russian Lakes, Geographical Classification .................... 679
Vladislav A. Rumyantsev, Sergey A. Kondratyev and Anna
V. Izmaylova
Russian Water Reservoirs ...................................... 691
Victor P. Saltankin
Saki, Lake (Crimea, Ukraine) .................................. 699
Rhodes W. Fairbridge (Deceased)
Satellite Data and Lakes ...................................... 700
Lennart Jönsson
Sedimentation Processes in Lakes .............................. 701
Lars Håkanson
Sediments, Flushing from Reservoirs ........................... 710
W. Rodney White
Slovenia, Lakes and Reservoirs ................................ 716
Matjaz Mikos
Source of Freshwater .......................................... 722
Reginald W. Herschy
South America, Holocene Coastal Lagoons ....................... 723
Felipe Garcia-Rodriguez
South America, Lakes Review ................................... 734
Rhodes W. Fairbridge (Deceased) and Lars Bengtsson
Stratification and Mixing in Tropical African Lakes ........... 737
Sally Maclntyre
Stratification in Lakes ....................................... 743
Timo Huttula
Submerged Vegetation in Shallow Lakes ......................... 747
Irmgard Blindow, Anders Hargeby and Klaus van de Weyer
Surface Seiches ............................................... 751
Ulrich Lemmin
Suspended Sediment Concentration in Stratified Lakes
Estimated by Acoustic Methods ................................. 753
Şebnem Elçi
Sweden's Great Lakes .......................................... 761
Magnus Larson
Swedish Glacial Lakes: Estimation of the Number of Lakes of
Different Sizes ............................................... 764
Lars Håkanson
Tanganyika Lake, Modeling the Eco-hydrodynamics ............... 769
Jaya Naithani, Pierre-Denis Plisnier and Eric
Deleersnijder
Tanganyika Lake: Strong in Hydrodynamics, Diverse in Ecology .. 776
Timo Huttula and Jouko Sarvala
Thames Water: Development of London's Potable Water Supply
and the Role of Bankside Storage Reservoirs ................... 782
Phil Renton, Terry Bridgman and Robin G. Bayley
Thermal Bar ................................................... 795
Arkady Terzhevik
Thermal Regime of Lakes ....................................... 797
Lars Bengtsson
Thermobaric Stratification of Very Deep Lakes ................. 800
Bertram Boehrer
Three Gorges Project on the Yangtze River in China ............ 802
Linus T. Zhang, Xiaoliu Yang and Zhujun Wang
Titicaca Lake ................................................. 807
Lars Bengtsson and Rhodes W. Fairbridge (Deceased)
Transboundary Waters: Rivers, Lakes, and Groundwaters ......... 808
Reginald W. Herschy
Trophic Lake Classification ................................... 813
Reginald W. Herschy
Tsunami Effect on a Coastal Lake in India ..................... 814
Kamala Kanta Satpathy, Ajit Kumar Mohanty, Sudeepta
Biswas, M. Selvanayagam and Santosh Kumar Sarkar
Turbidity Currents in Reservoirs .............................. 820
Josef Schneider, Gabriele Harb and Hannes Badura
Udaipur, Lakes ................................................ 827
V.V.S. Gurunadha Rao and Mogali J. Nandan
United Kingdom, Largest Lakes ................................. 828
Reginald W. Herschy
United States: Principal Freshwater Lakes ..................... 830
Reginald W. Herschy
Urban Lakes and Ponds ......................................... 836
Jesper Persson
Venting Turbidity Currents in Reservoirs ...................... 841
Josef Schneider, Gabriele Harb and Hannes Badura
Victoria Lake ................................................. 842
Reginald W. Herschy
Volume of Water in Lakes and Reservoirs: Determination ........ 846
Reginald W. Herschy
Võrtsjärv Lake in Estonia ..................................... 850
Peeter Nõges and Tiina Nцges
Water Balance of Lakes ........................................ 863
Lars Bengtsson
Water Balance of the Laurentian Great Lakes ................... 864
Vincent Fortin and Andrew D. Gronewold
Water Exchange Between Littoral Zone and Open Lake Water ...... 869
Yukie Tanino
Water Framework Directive ..................................... 872
Ben Surridge and Nigel Watson
Water Quality for Drinking: WHO Guidelines .................... 876
Reginald W. Herschy
Water Quality in Lakes and Reservoirs ......................... 883
Reginald W. Herschy
Wetland Areas and Lakes in Bulgaria ........................... 888
Reginald W. Herschy and George Gergov (Deceased)
Wetlands ...................................................... 901
Reginald W. Herschy
Wetlands of the Canadian Arctic ............................... 902
Ming-ko Woo and Kathy Young
Wetlands: Classification, Distribution, Function .............. 914
Lars Lundin
Wind Waves .................................................... 916
Luigi Cavaleri
World Lake Database: International Lake Environment
Committee Foundation (ILEC) ................................... 920
Reginald W. Herschy
World Lake Vision ............................................. 921
Reginald W. Herschy
Xiaolangdi Reservoir's Role in Water and Sediment Regulation .. 925
Zhu Xiaoyuan and Pang Hui
Author Index .................................................. 929
Subject Index ................................................. 931
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