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- Title
Heavy metals in sediments of the Gulf of Finland: a review.
- Authors
Emelyanov, Emelyan; Vallius, Henry; Kravtsov, Victor
- Abstract
The Gulf of Finland has during the last centuries been loaded with heavy metals of anthropogenic origin. Work with mapping of the chemistry of the sediments have been done in all surrounding countries during several decades, first in the Soviet Union and later in Russia and similarly in Finland. More recent sediment chemistry data from the last two decades was in this study combined into sediment chemistry maps added with some data from the commercial Nord Stream project. The result shows that zinc, copper and chromium are enriched in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland, while mercury, cadmium and lead are showing the highest concentrations in the north- eastern part of the gulf.
- Subjects
GULF of Finland; HEAVY metal content of marine sediments; GEOCHEMISTRY; ANTHROPOGENIC effects on nature; DATA analysis
- Publication
Baltica, 2017, Vol 30, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
0067-3064
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5200/baltica.2017.30.05