Speciation, Size Fractionation and Transport of Trace Elements in the Continuum Soil Water–Mire–Humic Lake–River–Large Oligotrophic Lake of a Subarctic Watershed

• Published in: Aquatic Geochemistry
• Main Authors: Ilina, Svetlana, Lapitskiy, Sergey, Alekhin, Yuriy, Viers, Jérôme, Benedetti, Marc, F, Pokrovsky, Oleg
• Other Authors: Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM), Moscow State University, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Tomsk State University Tomsk
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry; karelia*; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://brgm.hal.science/hal-01695774; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10498-015-9277-8

International audience The concentration and size fractionation of major and trace elements (TEs) linked to organo-mineral colloids along the landscape gradient soil water–peat mire–humic lakes–river–large oligotrophic lake have been investigated within two watersheds located in the subarctic region (Karelia, Russia) in the summer base-flow period. A large volume of natural waters was filtered in the field using cascade filtration and ultrafiltration (UF) with a progressively decreasing pore size [100, 20, 10, 5, 0.8, 0.4, 0.22, 0.1, 0.046, 0.0066 (100 kDa), 0.0031 (10 kDa) and 0.0014 µm (1 kDa)] followed by multi-elemental ICP-MS and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) analysis. In situ dialysis with 10 and 1 kDa molecular weight cutoff membranes was also conducted. According to the TE distribution among different size fractions in the continuum soil (mire)–humic lake–river–large lake, the following groups of elements could be distinguished: (1) elements significantly bound to the colloidal (1 kDa—0.22 µm) fraction and decreasing the proportion of this fraction from the feeding lake and stream to the terminal oligotrophic lake (Fe, Ti and U); (2) colloidally dominated (>80 %) elements exhibiting similar size fractionation in all studied settings (Y, REEs, Zr, Hf and Th); (3) elements appreciably bound to colloids (20–40 %) in organic-rich soil and bog waters and decreasing their colloidal fraction to approximately 10 % in the oligotrophic lake (Mg, Ca, Sr, Rb and Mo); and (4) elements linked to the colloidal fraction (40–80 %) and not demonstrating any systematic variation between different landscape units (Ni, Co, Cu, Cd, Cr, Mn, Zn and Pb). The in situ dialysis technique produced a similar picture of the colloidal size fractionation with generally lower proportions of elements in the colloidal fraction compared to the UF. Thermodynamic modeling of trace element speciation using available codes demonstrated that complexation with dissolved organic matter and adsorption at the surface of ferric colloids can ...