Chalcophile elements Hg, Cd, Pb, As in Lake Umbozero, Murmansk Region, Russia

• Main Authors: Dauvalter, V.A., Kashulin, N.A., Lehto, J., Jernström, Jussi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Nuclear technologies; Radioøkologi og sporstofstudier; Radioecology and tracer studies; Nukleare teknologier; Murmansk; Umbozero; taiga
• Online Access: https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/5f025cb2-1604-479b-b347-bbe8bfea5b67

Investigations of Lake Umbozero, the second largest and the deepest lake of the Murmansk Region, were carried out to detect and define biogeochemical patterns of distribution of the chalcophile elements (Hg, Cd, Pb, As) in water, sediments and organs and tissues of whitefishes. Lake Umbozero is affe...