Geochemistry and Organic Contaminants in the Sediments of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Mudroch, A., Allan, R.J., Joshi, S.R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1992
• Subjects: Air pollution; Arsenic; Bottom sediments; Composition; Cores; Geochemistry; Heavy metals; Organochlorines; Pollution; PCBs; Sediment transport; Sedimentation; Sediments (Geology); Soil mechanics; Trace elements; HCH; HCB; Chlordanes; Great Slave Lake region; N.W.T; Great Slave Lake; Canada; Fleuve Mackenzie; Mackenzie River; Northwest Territories; Arctic; Mackenzie river; Slave River; Territoires du Nord-Ouest
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64423

A study was carried out in the summer of 1987 to determine the geochemistry and distribution of trace elements, PCBs and 16 other chlorinated hydrocarbons in sediments from selected areas in Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada. Sediment cores were collected at three sampling stations in...