Variability and Significance of Labile Metals in the Offshore Mud Area of the East China Sea

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10.2991/rsete.2013.143How to use a DOI?

Keywords

the East China Sea, labile metals, human pollution records, diagenesis

Abstract

This paper investigated the variability of labile trace metals during recent hundred years through two cores collected in the offshore mud area of the East China Sea. The vertical variations of labile metals show much more clear human pollution records than “total” metals. The elevated values and the increasing patterns of labile Pb, Zn estimate human pollution was much more serious since economic policy implemented at 1978 in China. Besides, the labile Cu, Zn and Pb accumulate in deep depth in two cores, which are much different from “total” metals, showing post-depositional diagenesis plays an important role on the redistribution of labile metals. The results would help to reassess the impacts of contamination and also to find suitable treatment techniques for the polluted sediments.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ying Liu
AU  - Shikui Zhai
AU  - Suxia Huo
PY  - 2013/08
DA  - 2013/08
TI  - Variability and Significance of Labile Metals in the Offshore Mud Area of the East China Sea
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 the International Conference on Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 590
EP  - 594
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/rsete.2013.143
DO  - 10.2991/rsete.2013.143
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