Sediment profile characterisation at contaminated and reference locations in the Windmill Islands, East Antarctica

• Published in: Marine Pollution Bulletin
• Main Authors: Palmer, AS, Snape, I, Townsend, AT, Stark, JS, Samson, C, Riddle, MJ
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd 2010
• Subjects: Environmental Sciences; Environmental Science and Management; Environmental Monitoring; Brown Bay; East Antarctica; Windmill Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.04.013; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20488497; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/66780

Sediment profiles for pH, Eh, 28 elements, water and organic content are presented here for human impacted and reference locations in the Windmill Islands, East Antarctica. Variations in element concentrations are observed with increasing depth, especially at Brown Bay where the impact of past human...