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Sedimentary record of environmental pollution in the Western Baltic Sea

✍ Scribed by German Müller; J. Dominik; R. Reuther; R. Malisch; E. Schulte; L. Acker; G. Irion

Publisher
Springer
Year
1980
Tongue
English
Weight
669 KB
Volume
67
Category
Article
ISSN
0028-1042

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✦ Synopsis

The chronological development of environmental pollution in the Western Baltic Sea for the past hundred years was investigated in dated sediment cores. An artificial radionuclide (137Cs), nutrients, heavy metals, chlorinated hydrocarbons (PCB, DDT, Lindane) and plasticizers (phthalate esters) show characteristic distribution patterns within the various cores. They can be related to the production and use of specific chemicals and goods, to emissions associated with the increased combustion of coal parallel to industrialization and-in the case of 137Cs_ to emissions associated with atomic weapons tests in the high atmosphere. Characteristic trends in the general development of pollution may be superimposed by specific emissions from local sources.

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