Widespread waterborne pollution in central Swedish lakes and the Baltic Sea from pre-industrial mining and metallurgy

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2132-2141

  Bindler, Richard ^a   Renberg, Ingemar ^a   Rydberg, Johan ^a   Andrén, Thomas ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b School of Life Sciences Södertörn University   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Lake sediment; Lead; Mercury; Mining; Pollution

Indexed keywords

18TH CENTURIES; 19TH CENTURIES; 20TH CENTURIES; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; BALTIC SEAS; INDUSTRIAL POLLUTIONS; LAKE SEDIMENT; LOCAL SCALE; LONG-RANGE TRANSPORTS; MERCURY; METAL POLLUTIONS; RIVER SYSTEMS; WATERBORNE METALS;

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CADMIUM; LAKES; LEAD; MERCURY (METAL); METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; MINE TRANSPORTATION; MINING; ORES; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

LAKE POLLUTION;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CADMIUM; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE POLLUTION; LEAD; MARINE POLLUTION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METALLURGY; MINING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LAKE; METALLURGY; MINING; SEA POLLUTION; SWEDEN; WATER POLLUTION;

CADMIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MERCURY; METALLURGY; METALS, HEAVY; MINING; NORTH SEA; SOIL; SWEDEN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; LAKE MALAREN; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 67349285099     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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