HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION IN THE TAIMYR PENINSULA, SIBERIAN ARCTIC

• Main Authors: S AllenGil, J Ford, B Lasorsa, M Monetti, T Vlasova, D Landers
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Arctic; Norilsk; Dicrostonyx torquatus; norilsk; Taimyr; lota
• Online Access: http://oaspub.epa.gov/eims/eimsapi.dispdetail?deid=65224

The Taimyr Peninsula is directly north of the world's largest heavy metal smelting complex (Norilsk, Russia). Despite this proximity, there has been little research to examine the extent of contamination of the Taimyr Peninsula, primarily because of the remoteness of this area. We analyzed heav...