Heavy Metals in the Water, Plants, and Bottom Sediments of the Volga River Mouth Area

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 859-868

  Lychagin, Mikhail Yu ^a   Tkachenko, Anna N ^a   Kasimov, Nikolay S ^a   Kroonenberg, Salomon B ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

aquatic systems; Environmental geochemistry; geochemical barriers; macrophytes; suspended matter; Volga delta

Indexed keywords

DELTA; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; HEAVY METAL; MACROPHYTE; POLLUTION MONITORING; RIVER BASIN; RIVER POLLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; VOLGA RIVER;

EID: 84937149765     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-12-00194.1     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Afanasyev, N.A.; Kiryanov, S.V., and Matveichuk, I.G., 1997. Current status and pollution status of shallow estuarine coastal zone. In: Polonsky, V.F.; Mikhailov, V.N., and Kiryanov, S.V. (eds.), Mouth Area of the Volga River: Hydrological and Morphological Processes, Pollution Status, and the Impact of Fluctuations in the Level of the Caspian Sea. Moscow: GEOS, pp. 182-190 [in Russian].
2. Alekseevskyi, N.I. (ed.), 1997. Channel processes in the Volga delta. In: Alekseevskyi, N.I. (ed.), Geoecology of the Caspian Sea, Volume 2. Moscow: Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University, 164p [in Russian].
3. Belevich, E.F., 1963. Zoning of the Volga delta. In: Fauna and Ecology of Birds of the Volga Delta and the Caspian Sea Coast. Astrakhan, pp. 401-421 [in Russian].
4. De Mora, S.; Sheikholeslami, M.R.; Wyse, E.; Azemard, S., and Cassi, R., 2004. An assessment of metal contamination in coastal sediments of the Caspian Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 48(1-2), 61-77.
5. Dobrovolsky, V.V., 1983. Geography of Microelements: Global Scattering. Moscow: Mysl, 272p [in Russian].
6. Dobrovolsky, V.V., 2003. Fundamentals of Biogeochemistry. Moscow: Academia, 400p.
7. Emelyanov, E.M., 1998. The Barrier Zones in the Ocean: Sedimentation, Ore Formation, Geoecology. Kaliningrad, Russian Federation: Yantarny Skaz, 416p [in Russian].
8. Forstner, U., 1983. Assessment of metal pollution in rivers and estuaries. In: Thornton, I. (ed.), Applied Environmental Geochemistry. New York: Academic, pp. 395-419.
9. Gordeev, V.V., 2009. The System River-Sea and Its Role in the Geochemistry of the Ocean. Abstract. Moscow: P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Science thesis, 35p [in Russian].
10. Gordeev, V.V. and Lisitsyn, A.P., 1978. Average chemical composition of suspended matter of the world's rivers river sediment material input into the oceans. Journal of Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 238(1), 225-228 [in Russian].
11. Hamza, W., 2006. The Nile estuary. In: Wangersky, P.J. (ed.), Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 5, Part H. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 149-173.
12. Kasimov, N.S.; Kroonenberg, S.B.; Lychagin, M.Y.; Olefirenko, N.L., and Tarusova, O.V., 1999. Geochemistry of sediments and soils of the Astrakhan Nature Reserve. In: Labutina, L.A. and Lychagin, M.Yu.. (eds.), Geoecology of the Caspian Sea, Volume 3. Moscow: Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University, pp. 96-111 [in Russian].
13. Kazmiruk, V.D.; Kazmiruk, T.N., and Brekhovskikh, V.F., 2004. Overgrown Streams and Reservoirs. Moscow: Nauka, 310p [in Russian].
14. Kroonenberg, S.B.; Rusakov, G.V., and Svitoch, A.A., 1997. The wandering of the Volga delta: a response to rapid Caspian sea level change. Sedimentary Geology, 107(3-4), 189-209.
15. Lisitsyn, A.P., 1994. Marginal filter of the oceans. Journal of Oceanology, 34(5), 735-748 [in Russian].
16. Lychagin, M.Yu.; Baldina, E.A.; Gorbunov, A.K.; Labutina, I.A.; de Leeuw, J.; Kasimov, N.S.; Gennadiev, A.N.; Krivonosov, G.A., and Kroonenberg, S.B., 1995. The Astrakhanskiy Biosphere Reserve GIS: 1. Present status and perspectives. ITC Journal, 3, 189-192.
17. Lychagin, M.Yu. and Kasimov, N.S., 2002. Geochemistry of heavy metals in the bottom sediments of the Volga delta. In: Kasimov, N.S. and Gerasimova, M.I. (eds.), Journal of Geochemistry of Landscapes and Geography of Soils. Smolensk: Oykumena, pp. 137-168 [in Russian].
18. Lychagina, N. Yu.; Kasimov, N.S., and Lychagin, M.Yu., 1998. Biogeochemistry of macrophytes of the Volga delta. In: Kasimov, N.S. (ed.), Geoecology of the Caspian Sea, Volume 4. Moscow: Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University, 84p [in Russian].
19. Martin, J.W. and Mayback, M., 1979. Elemental mass-balance of material carried by major world rivers. Marine Chemistry, 7(3), 173-206.
20. Mikhailov, V.N., 1998. Major physiographic features of the Volga mouth area. In: Polonsky, V.F.; Mikhailov, V.N., and Kiryanov, S.V. (eds.), Mouth Area of the Volga River: Hydrological and Morphological Processes, Pollution Status, and the Impact of Fluctuations in the Level of the Caspian Sea. Moscow: GEOS, pp. 10-15 [in Russian].
21. Miramand, P.; Guyot, T.; Rybarczyk, H.; Elkai, B.; Mouny, P.; Dauvin, J.C., and Bessinrton, C., 2001. Contamination of the biological compartment in the Seine estuary by Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn. Journal of Estuaries and Coasts, 24(6B), 1056-1065.
22. Moore, J.W. and Ramamurthy, S., 1987. Heavy Metals in Natural Waters. Moscow: Mir, 286p [in Russian].
23. O'Reilly Wiese, S.B.; Macleod, C.L., and Lester, J.N., 1997. A recent history of metal accumulation in the sediments of the Thames estuary, United Kingdom. Journal of Estuaries and Coasts, 20(3), 483-493.
24. Perelman, A.I., 1961. Geochemistry of the Landscape. Moscow: Geografgiz, 496p [in Russian].
25. Polonsky, V.F. and Alekseevskyi, N.I., 1998. Regime and the balance of sediments in the delta. In: Polonsky, V.F.; Mikhailov, V.N., and Kiryanov, S.V. (eds.), Mouth Area of the Volga River: Hydrological and Morphological Processes, Pollution Status, and the Impact of Fluctuations in the Level of the Caspian Sea. Moscow: GEOS, pp. 110-116 [in Russian].
26. Ramanathan, A.L.; Vaithiyanathan, P.; Subramanian, V., and Das, B.K., 1993. Geochemistry of the Cauvery estuary, east coast of India. Journal of Estuaries and Coasts, 16(3A), 459-474.
27. Ruiz-Fernández, A.C.; Frignani, M.; Hillaire-Marcel, C.; Ghaleb, B.; Arvizu, M.D.; Raygoza-Viera, J.R., and Páez-Osuna, F., 2009. Trace metals (Cd, Cu, Hg, and Pb) accumulation recorded in the intertidal mudflat sediments of three coastal lagoons in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Journal of Estuaries and Coasts, 32(3), 551-564.
28. Rychagov, G.I. and Korotaev, V.N. (eds.), 2002. Lower Volga: Geomorphology, Palaeogeography, and Channel Morphodynamics. Moscow: GEOS, 242p [in Russian].
29. Savenko, V.S., 2006. The Chemical Composition of Suspended Sediment of the World's Rivers. Moscow: GEOS, 173p [in Russian].
30. Smoak, J.M.; Krest, J.M., and Swarzenski, P.W., 2006. Geochemistry of the Amazon estuary. In: Wangersky, P.J. (ed.), Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 5, Part H. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 71-90.
31. Warnken, K.W. and Santschi, P.H., 2009. Delivery of trace metals (Al, Fe, Mn, V, Co, Ni, Cu, Cd, Ag, Pb) from the Trinity River watershed towards the ocean. Journal of Estuaries and Coasts, 32(1), 158-172.
32. Winkels, H.J.; Kroonenberg, S.B.; Lychagin, M.Y.; Marin, G.; Rusakov, G.V., and Kasimov, N.S., 1998. Geochronology of priority pollutants in sedimentation zones of the Volga and Danube delta in comparison with the Rhine delta. Journal of Applied Geochemistry, 13(5), 581-591.
33. Yanin, Ye.P., 2002. Channel Sedimentation of Lowland Rivers. Moscow: IMGRE, 139p [in Russian].