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Methodology and Results of Ecogeochemical Investigation of Barents Sea
Gennady I. Ivanov
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Gennady I. Ivanov "Methodology and Results of Ecogeochemical
Investigation of Barents Sea". SPB, VNIIOkeangeologia, 2002, 153 pp.
ISBN 5-88994-059-7
ABSTRACT
VNIIOkeangeologia have carried multidisciplinary environmental
investigations of Western part of Arctic through 1991-2001. Total number
of complex stations was more than 1100. We propose geochemical
parameters and criteria to be added existing methods of assessment. As
geochemical criteria one proposes background concentrations of major
groups of contaminants (chlororganic compounds, heavy metals, phenols,
HC, PAH, SSAS, radionuclides) in water and sediments, calculated for
various levels of complexity of geological objects (transregional- for
Barents Sea, regional- for Pechora Sea, local- for Shtockman field. To
assess degree of contamination of marine near-bottom ecosystem by
definite set of contaminants one can use geochemical index of
contamination of bottom sediments (Csed) and bottom water(Cwat). Book
including 22 maps of distribution concentrations of major groups of
contaminants in water and bottom sediments.
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