ASSESSMENT OF OVERBANK SEDIMENTATION RATES AND ASSOCIATED POLLUTANT TRANSPORT WITHIN THE SEVERNYA DVINA RIVER BASIN

• Published in: GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY
• Main Authors: Vladimir Belyaev, Alexander Zavadsky, Maxim Markelov, Valentin Golosov, Elena Aseeva, Yulia Kuznetsova, Rolf Ottesen, Jim Bogen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Lomonosov Moscow State University 2011
• Subjects: suspended sediment; floodplain; overbank deposition; 137cs; particle-bound pollutants; severnaya dvina river; geo; envir; Severnaya Dvina; dvina
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2011-4-3-68-84; https://doaj.org/article/df99febc28e24804a998ac85775f0e31

It is now widely recognized that significant proportion of pollutants in rivers is transported with suspended sediments. This paper presents a combination of reconstruction of recent floodplain sedimentation rates based on detailed description of sediment sections and 137Cs stratigraphy with geochem...