Chalcophile elements Hg, Cd, Pb, As in Lake Umbozero, Murmansk Region, Russia

• Main Authors: Dauvalter, V.A., Kashulin, N.A., Lehto, J., Jernström, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Tehran 2009
• Subjects: contamination; Chalcophile elements; Whitefish; Sediments; hydrochemistry; Murmansk Region; Lake Umbozero; Murmansk; Umbozero; taiga
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/49457; http://www.bioline.org.br/abstract?id=er09044; http://www.bioline.org.br/er; http://ijer.ut.ac.ir/

Investigations of Lake Umbozero, the second largest and the deepest lake of the Murmansk Region, were carried out to detect and define biogeochemical patterns of distribution of the chalcophile elements (Hg, Cd, Pb, As) in water, sediments and organs and tissues of whitefishes. Lake Umbozero is affe...