A paleolimnological archive of metal sequestration and release in the Cumberland Basin Marshes, Atlantic Canada

• Main Authors: Dewey W. Dunnington (Author), Hilary White (Author), Ian S. Spooner (Author), Mark L. Mallory (Author), Chris White (Author), Nelson J. O'Driscoll (Author), Nic R. McLellan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We used a paleolimnological approach at Long Lake, Nova Scotia, to construct a 10 500-year record of metal deposition in lakebed sediments and elucidate the influence of both natural and anthropogenic environmental changes. Aquatic sediment concentrations of mercury (Hg), arsenic (As), and chromium...