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Magnetic susceptibility distribution in lake sediments inferred from short cores

collected in the Danube Delta and Razim - Sinoie Lagoonal Complex

Conference Paper · May 2012

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 MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY DISTRIBUTION IN LAKE SEDIMENTS INFERRED
FROM SHORT CORES COLLECTED IN THE DANUBE DELTA AND RAZIM – SINOIE
LAGOONAL COMPLEX

Sorin - Corneliu Rădan*, Silviu Rădan** and Irina Catianis**

*
Geological Institute of Romania, 1 Caransebes St., RO-012271 Bucharest, Romania;
e-mail: sc.radan@yahoo.com;
**
GeoEcoMar, 23-25 Dimitrie Onciul St., RO-024053 Bucharest, Romania

The paper is focused on the enviromagnetic results obtained on numerous short cores,
collected during 2006 – 2011 period, from the recent sediments of a series of deltaic and
lagoonal lakes, located in the very important aquatic areas of the Southeastern Romania, i.e. the
Danube Delta and Razim (Razelm) – Sinoie Lagoonal Complex.
Hence, by using a transparent Hydro-Bios corer, sediments up to ca 56 cm depth were sampled
from various aquatic ecosystems. The sedimentary environments investigated in the Danube
Delta are located in several lakes from its interdistributary depressions. The magnetic
susceptibility (MS) was measured also for a number of short cores that were taken out from four
main lakes of the lagoonal complex. In order to study the vertical distribution of the magnetic
susceptibility, the sediment cores were cut at an adequate number of levels, the MS being
measured for each sediment packet collected from the respective sampling intervals.
As regards the variations in the magnetic susceptibility regime along the cores, in many cases
was observed the increasing of the enviromagnetic parameter “intensity” from the upper towards
the lower parts. Even in the lakes characterised by “confined sedimentary environments”, k
values assigned to the MS classes III, IV and V (k scale, in Rădan & Rădan, 2007) were
measured on the sediments sampled from the depth interval 35 – 55 cm, while for those
collected from the first 10 – 30 cm, the magnetic regime showed a low k “intensity” level (defined
by the MS classes I and II). Such data demonstrate the capability of the investigated magnetic
parameter as sedimentogenetic indicator, the higher k values being possible to be correlated
with the interception of a underwater sandy bar. On the other side, the lower k values measured
on the sediment samples collected from the upper part of the cores are usually related to the
muds with fine vegetal (organic) detritus and/or with shell fragments. Based on the values of the
enviromagnetic parameter (k) and of the contents of the lithological components (i.e., Organic
Matter, Carbonates and Mineral/Siliciclastic fraction), several correlation coefficients (r) were
calculated.
The MS regimes achieved for the short cores make possible to compare the sedimentary
environments characterising the deltaic lakes with those from the lagoonal lakes.
The magnetic susceptibility database, obtained by the investigation of the cores collected during
the last five years, and which will be further completed, is also useful to make attempts to carry
out sedimentogenetic and lithological correlations inside of a lake or between the lakes. The
future results will give complementary contributions in this respect.

References
Rădan, S.C., Rădan, S. (2007) – A magnetic susceptibility scale for lake sediments; inferences
from the Danube Delta and the Razim – Sinoie lagoonal Complex (Romania), Geo-Eco-
Marina, 13, Bucureşti-Constanţa, 61-74.

Keywords: magnetic susceptibility, enviromagnetics, lake sediment, lithological composition,

underwater sedimentary environment, Danube Delta, Razim (Razelm) – Sinoie Lagoonal
Complex

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