Hidden plastics of Lake Ontario, Canada and their potential preservation in the sediment record

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 204, Issue , 2015, Pages 17-25

  Corcoran, Patricia L ^a   Norris, Todd ^a   Ceccanese, Trevor ^a   Walzak, Mary Jane ^a   Helm, Paul A ^b   Marvin, Chris H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accumulation rates; Lake; Lake bottom sediment; Microplastics; Ontario; Pellets

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMERS; MINERALS; ORE PELLETS; PELLETIZING; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; PLASTICS FILLERS; POLYPROPYLENES; RIVER POLLUTION; SEDIMENTS;

ACCUMULATION RATES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; LAKE BOTTOM SEDIMENTS; MICROPLASTICS; ONTARIO; SAMPLING DATES; SEDIMENT DEPTH; SEDIMENT RECORDS;

LAKES;

MINERAL; PLASTIC; POLYETHYLENE; POLYPROPYLENE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACCUMULATION RATE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE POLLUTION; PLASTIC; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION INCIDENCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLYMER; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SHORE (NONMARINE);

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CANADA; LAKE; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRESERVATION; RIVER; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ONTARIO; POLLUTION; PROCEDURES; WATER POLLUTANT;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ONTARIO;

ADSORPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LAKES; MINERALS; ONTARIO; PLASTICS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84927936249     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.04.009     Document Type: Article

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