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

2015 ◽  
Vol 314 ◽  
pp. 859-868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail Yu. Lychagin ◽  
Anna N. Tkachenko ◽  
Nikolay S. Kasimov ◽  
Salomon B. Kroonenberg
Author(s):  
Nguyen Ngoc Tien ◽  
Dinh Van Uu ◽  
Nguyen Tho Sao ◽  
Do Huy Cuong ◽  
Nguyen Trung Thanh ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Zhanna Sergeevna Makakhaniuk ◽  
Valentina Mikhailovna Zubkova ◽  
Lyubov Anatolievna Rozumnaya

The article describes the purpose of the work, which is determining the distribution and relationships between the composition of pollutants in coastal soil, bottom sediments and higher aquatic vegetation in the small river Khodtsa. There have been presented the data of the laboratory research based on the results of the field work onselecting samples, on concentration of toxicants (cadmium, lead, iron, nitrogen, ammonium and petroleum products) in deposit media, as well as in Carex aquatilis plants of the small river Hodza. This plant species is limiting throughout the river due to the low intensity of biological absorption. The studies were carried out during the summer low water season in 2019 on the river section from the source (Elektrostal city) to the river mouth in the area of Pavlovsky Posad. In all the studied objects there have been found increased concentrations of iron. In the coastal ground and bottom sediments the pollution with heavy metals is manifested to a much greater extent: at the source and intermediate point. Petroleum products and ammonia nitrogen are distributed unevenly in space. A correlation analysis of the experimental data obtained in the components of the environment of the studied territory (the Khodtsa river) was performed. In general, the highest measurement results are observed in the upper reaches of the small river Khodtsa in the industrial city of Elektrostal. The obtained data on the heavy metals migration in the system “сoastal ground – bottom sediments – higher aquatic vegetation” of the small river Khodtsa can be successfully used as indicators an environmental monitoring system and serve as the basis for organizing further research, as well as for developing a strategy for environmental management and environmental protection in the Moscow Region.


Author(s):  
Andrzej Osadczuk ◽  
Stanisław Musielak ◽  
Ryszard Borówka

Why should the Odra River mouth area not be regarded as an estuary? A geologist's point of viewThe authors find no arguments that would justify application of the term "estuary" to the area of the Odra River discharge into the Baltic Sea. The physiography, geology, and hydrology of the Odra river mouth show that the area possesses many more characteristics typical of flow-through coastal lagoons than those of estuaries. Of key importance in this respect is the Szczecin Lagoon, an extensive, shallow water body separated from the open sea by a barrier intersected by three narrow and long straits. The lagoonal nature of the area is demonstrated also by its geological history.


2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. N. Mikhailov ◽  
M. V. Mikhailova ◽  
V. N. Korotaev

2005 ◽  
Vol 163 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Witthöft-Mühlmann ◽  
W. Traunspurger ◽  
K. O. Rothhaupt

Author(s):  
Y. Kurashige ◽  
T. Nakano ◽  
E. Kasubuchi ◽  
M. Maruo ◽  
H. Domitsu

Abstract. The river mouth of Kitagawa Brook is normally stagnant because it is easily closed by sand and gravel transported by littoral currents of Biwa Lake, Japan. A new urban area exists in the basin and sewerage works were constructed in the early 1990s, so contaminated water with a bad odour had flowed into the brook before the sewerage works. To reduce the smell, the river mouth was excavated to narrow the channel in the early 1980s. Thus, river-bed sediment after this excavation only occurs at the river mouth. From the upper 24 cm of a sediment core, we found 19 strata of leaves which were supplied from deciduous trees in autumn. We also found several gravel layers which were supplied from the lake during severe storms. The combination of veins and gravel layers were reconstructed for about 20 years of sediment records with an error of two to three years.


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