Palaeolimnological assessment of trace element inputs to lakes in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta, Canada

• Main Authors: Rose, N, Turner, SD, Yang, H
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: UCL Environmental Change Research Centre 2012
• Subjects: Fort McMurray; Canada; The Ramp; Caribou Mountains; Parallel Lake
• Online Access: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10113840/1/ecrc_report_149_Rose_2012_Alberta.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10113840/

Undisturbed lake sediment records provide a robust natural archive of conditions within waterbodies. They have been used successfully over a number of decades to determine temporal trends of surface water acidification and to follow the effects of eutrophication. However, lake sediments also provide...