A project funded by the United Nations Development Programme/Global Environment Facility (UNDP/GEF) and executed by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Pollution Control and Other Measures to Protect Biodiversity in Lake Tanganyika (RAF/92/G32) Lutte contre la pollution et autres mesures visant à protéger la biodiversité du Lac Tanganyika (RAF/92/G32) Le Projet sur la diversité biologique du lac Tanganyika a été formulé pour aider les quatre Etats riverains (Burundi, Congo, Tanzanie et Zambie) à élaborer un système efficace et durable pour gérer et conserver la diversité biologique du lac Tanganyika dans un avenir prévisible. Il est financé par le GEF (Fonds pour l’environnement mondial) par le biais du Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement. The Lake Tanganyika Biodiversity Project has been formulated to help the four riparian states (Burundi, Congo, Tanzania and Zambia) produce an effective and sustainable system for managing and conserving the biodiversity of Lake Tanganyika into the foreseeable future. It is funded by the Global Environmental Facility through the United Nations Development Programme. Burundi: Institut National pour Environnement et Conservation de la Nature D R Congo: Ministrie Environnement et Conservation de la Nature Tanzania: Vice President’s Office, Division of Environment Zambia: Environmental Council of Zambia Enquiries about this publication, or requests for copies should be addressed to: Project Field Co-ordinator Lake Tanganyika Biodiversity Project PO Box 5956 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania UK Co-ordinator, Lake Tanganyika Biodiversity Project Natural Resources Institute Central Avenue, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4TB, UK Special Study on Sediment Discharge and Its Consequences (SedSS) Technical Report Number 11 Paleolimnological Investigations by Andrew S. Cohen, and Manuel R Palacios-Fest (Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 USA) with affiliated Scientists David Dettman and Emma Msaky, Daniel Livingstone and Brent McKee 1999