| Title | A test of the stability of Cd, Cu, Hg, Pb and Zn profiles over two decades in lake sediments near the Flin Flon Smelter, Manitoba, Canada |
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| Author | Percival, J B ;
Outridge, P M |
| Source | Science of the Total Environment vol. 454-455, 2013 p. 307-318, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.03.011 |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Alt Series | Earth Sciences Sector, Contribution Series 20110265 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Manitoba; Saskatchewan |
| NTS | 63K/12; 63K/13; 63L/09; 63L/10; 63L/15; 63L/16; 63M/01; 63M/02; 63M/07; 63M/08; 63N/04; 63N/05 |
| Area | Sask4 Lake; Meridian Lake; Cleaver/Persian Lake; Kotyk Lake; Flin Flon |
| Lat/Long WENS | -103.0000 -101.5000 55.5000 54.5000 |
| Subjects | geochemistry; mineralogy; lake sediments; metals; cadmium geochemistry; copper geochemistry; mercury geochemistry; lead geochemistry; zinc geochemistry; smelters; geochemical analyses; lake sediment
cores; mineralogical analyses; trace element geochemistry; diagenesis; Precambrian Shield; Precambrian; Proterozoic |
| Illustrations | location sketch maps; geochemical concentration charts |
| Program | Environmental Geoscience |
| Released | 2013 06 01 |
| Abstract | Lake sediments are valuable archives of atmospheric metal deposition, but the stability of some element profiles may possibly be affected by diagenetic changes over time. In this extensive case study,
the stability of sedimentary Cd, Cu, Hg, Pb and Zn profiles was assessed in dated sediment cores that were collected in 2004 from four smelter-affected lakes near Flin Flon, Manitoba, which had previously been cored in 1985. Metal profiles determined
in 1985 were in most cases clearly reproduced in the corresponding sediment layers in 2004, although small-scale spatial heterogeneity in metal distribution complicated the temporal comparisons. Pre-smelter (i.e. pre-1930) increases in metal profiles
were likely the result of long-range atmospheric metal pollution, coupled with particle mixing at the 1930s sediment surface. However, the close agreement between key inflection points in the metal profiles sampled two decades apart suggests that
metals in most of the lakes, and Hg and Zn in the most contaminated lake (Meridian), were stable once the sediments were buried below the surface mixed layer. Cadmium, Cu and Pb profiles in Meridian Lake did not agree as well between studies, showing
evidence of upward remobilization over time. Profiles of redox-indicator elements (Fe, Mn, Mo and U) suggested that the rate of Mn oxyhydroxide recycling within sediment was more rapid in Meridian Lake, which may have caused the Cd, Cu and Pb
redistribution. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 289550 |
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