The role of smelter emissions and element remobilization in the sediment chemistry of 99 lakes around the Horne smelter, Québec

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

Volumn 6, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 187-202

  Telmer, Kevin H ^a,b   Daneshfar, Bahram ^c   Sanborn, Michael S ^a   Kliza Petelle, Deborah ^c   Rancourt, Denis G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diagenesis; Industrial emissions; Lake sediments; Metals; Remobilization; Rouyn Noranda Quebec

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ECONOMICS; GEOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; LAKES; LAND USE; METALS; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS;

DIAGENESIS; LAKE SEDIMENTS; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; NORANDA; REMOBILIZATION; SEDIMENT WATER INTERFACE; SEDIMENTATION RATES; STATISTICAL APPROACH;

SMELTING;

DEPOSITION; DIAGENESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; LAKE POLLUTION; REMOBILIZATION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SMELTING; TRACE METAL; WATER CHEMISTRY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; ROUYN-NORANDA;

EID: 33745855875     PISSN: 14677873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1467-7873/05-099     Document Type: Article

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