Assessment of contamination of recent sediments of a large reservoir in the catchment of Arctic Ocean, Northern Europe

• Main Authors: Zakhar Slukovskii, Natalia Belkina, Maxim Potakhin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polish Academy of Sciences 2021
• Subjects: arctic; vygozero reservoir; freshwater sediments; trace elements; long-range transport of pollutants; Geology; QE1-996.5; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Vygozero; Polar Research; Republic of Karelia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.24425/ppr.2021.136511; https://doaj.org/article/48795b3cc7244ff489a3f79256abf4bd

The chemical composition of recent sediments of the Vygozero Reservoir, located in the North of Europe, in the Republic of Karelia (the catchment of Arctic Ocean), has been analysed. The level of enrichment and depletion of chemical elements, including trace elements, of the sediments relative to th...