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Sediment-Water Interactions in Anoxic Freshwater Sediments

Mobility of Heavy Metals and Nutrients

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Yigang Song
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  2. German Müller
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences (LNEARTH, volume 81)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Abstract

    Pages 1-2

  3. Introduction

    Pages 3-8

  4. Methods and materials

    Pages 9-16

  5. Results and discussion

    Pages 17-100

  6. Conclusions

    Pages 101-101

  7. Back Matter

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Aquatic sediments are important sinks of inorganic and organic pollutants as well as of nutrients in highly industrialized and densely populated areas. As many aquatic organisms live in or on the sediments, polluted sediments provide a pathway for the chemicals to food-chain organisms, and finally to man. Sediment-water interactions play a fundamental role in biogeochemical cycling of the elements. One of the most important reactions is the mineralization of organic matter during early diagenesis, which not only leads to anoxic conditions connected with a recycling of nitrate, phosphate, and ammonia but changes the chemical bonding of heavy metals into more soluble species. Our study carried out on freshwater sediments enabled us to show whether heavy metals and nutrients are released into the overlying water under changes in physicochemical conditions. The information is important to water management and sediment dredging activities in harbour areas.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sediment-Water Interactions in Anoxic Freshwater Sediments

  • Book Subtitle: Mobility of Heavy Metals and Nutrients

  • Authors: Yigang Song, German Müller

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0117772

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-65022-5Due: 18 November 1998

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-49725-7Published: 03 January 2008

  • Series ISSN: 0930-0317

  • Series E-ISSN: 1613-2580

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 111

  • Number of Illustrations: 56 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sedimentology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Environmental Management, Hydrogeology

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