Fluxes of mercury to lake sediments in central and northern Canada inferred from dated sediment cores

• Main Authors: Lockhart, W.L., Wilkinson, P., Billeck, B.N, Danell, R.A., Hunt, R.V., Brunskill, G.J., Delaronde, J., St.Louis, V.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; Chronology; Core; Deposition; Mercury; Sediment; Fluxes; Canada; Lake; Ela; Hudson; Hudson Bay
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/33952; https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005923123637

Sediment cores were collected from lakes in central and northern Canada and from Hudson Bay to compare current and historic net depositions of mercury. Cores from most locations were enriched in mercury in the upper layers deposited recently relative to deeper, historic layers. The lakes with the gr...