A Baláta-tó környezettörténete

Sedimentary basins such as Lake Baláta in south-western Hungary provide information about the development of lake-bog systems, the climate change through time and about the environment of the surrounding area.the application of different methods, such as sedimentologi-cal, geochemical, macrofossil, pollen and charcoal analysis make it possible to reconstruct the climatic, vegetation and hydrological changes of this protected area for the last 3000 years. Lake Baláta is a sedimentary basin developed in a wind-blown yardang system. due to its deeper location and the higher groundwater-level the boggy lake functioned as a sediment catchment basin. so by the analysis of samples de-rive form cores we get closer to the formation, development and the temporal changes of the environment of the lake-bog system.