Assessing the responses of Cladocera to a failed exploratory hydrocarbon drilling-mud sump in the Mackenzie Delta uplands (Northwest Territories, Canada)

• Main Author: Cheng, Elisa
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: sump; Cladocera; Mackenzie Delta Uplands; Arctic; Northwest Territories; Canada; Mackenzie Delta; Climate change
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7130

Sumps act as the main form of containment and disposal method of wastes associated with exploratory hydrocarbon drilling. Leakage of drilling wastes from these sumps to the aquatic environment can be very damaging because of their toxic constituents. The purpose of the paleolimnological study is to...