Aivo Lepland

Graduate studies:
Göteborg University 6/93 to 6/98
Doctoral dissertation: Sedimentary processes and related detrital and authigenic mineralogy of Holocene sediments: Skagerrak and Baltic Sea

Research fields:
Marine geology, mineralogy, diagenesis, authigenic mineralogy, laminated sediments

Publications:

1. Lepland, A., Miller, U. & Sakson, M., 1995. Palaeoenvironmental conditions during the Yoldia Sea stage in the Tallinn area, norterh Estonia. Quaternary International, 27: 83-94.
2. Stevens, R.L., Bengtsson, H. & Lepland, A., 1996. Textural provinces and transport interpretations with fine-grained sediments in the Skagerrak. Journal of Sea Research, 35: 99-110.
3. Lepland, A & Stevens, R.L., 1996. Textural and mineralogical trends related to coarse-silt and sand sedimentation in northern Skagerrak. NGU Bulletin, 430: 35-46.
4. Lepland, A & Stevens, R.L., 1996. Mineral magnetic and textural interpretations of sedimentation in the Skagerrak, eastern North Sea. Marine Geology, 135: 51-64.
5. Lepland, A & Stevens, R.L., 1996. Authigenic manganese precipitation in the Landsort Deep, west-central Baltic Sea. GFF, 118: 118-119.
6. Lepland, A & Stevens, R.L., 1996. Anoxic diagenesis in the Landsort Deep, west-central Baltic Sea. Proceedings volume of the Fourth International symposium on the Geochemistry of the Earth's Surface, 81-84.
7. Lepland, Aivo, Hang, T., Kihno, K., Sakson, M., Sandgren, P. & Lepland, Aave., 1997. Holocene sea-level changes and environmental history in the Narva area. north-eastern Estonia, PACT 51: 313-358.
8. Lepland, A. & Stevens, R.L. Manganese authigenesis in the Landsort Deep, west -central Baltic Sea. Marine Geology, 149: 1-25.
9. Lepland, A., Saether, O. & Thorsnes, T. Barium in the recent Skagerrak sediments: controls upon the geographic and stratiraphic trends. Submitted to Marine Geology.
10. Heinsalu, A., Lepland, A. & Stevens, R.L. The pre-Litorina diatom stratigraphy and sediment sulphidisation record from the west-central Baltic Sea: implications of the water column salinity variations. Submitted to GFF.
11. Lepland, A., 1996. Partition of carbon isotopes in different carrier phases of Archean metasediments. Report on the NASA Planetary Biology Internship, held at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 8 pages, 5 figures.