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Distribution of Heavy-Metal Contamination in Regulated River-Channel Deposits: a Magnetic Susceptibility and Grain-Size Approach; River Morava, Czech Republic

SYSNO ASEP	0392130
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	Distribution of Heavy-Metal Contamination in Regulated River-Channel Deposits: a Magnetic Susceptibility and Grain-Size Approach; River Morava, Czech Republic
Author(s)	Famera, M. (CZ) Bábek, O. (CZ) Matys Grygar, Tomáš (UACH-T)_{RID, SAI, ORCID} Nováková, Tereza (UACH-T)_{SAI, RID, ORCID}
Source Title	Water, Air, and Soil Pollution. - : Springer - ISSN 0049-6979 Roč. 224, č. 5 (2013), 1525-1-1525-18
Number of pages	18 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	NL - Netherlands
Keywords	Fluvial transport ; Fly-ash spherules ; Geochemical background ; Heavy metals ; Lithology ; Magnetic susceptibility
Subject RIV	DD - Geochemistry
R&D Projects	IAAX00130801 GA AV ČR - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (AV ČR)
Institutional support	UACH-T - RVO:61388980
UT WOS	000319161400022
EID SCOPUS	84875533695
DOI	10.1007/s11270-013-1525-1
Annotation	nthropogenic contamination by heavy metals in fluvial systems is mostly bound to fine-grained clay minerals and organic substances, which accumulate by vertical accretion in sediment traps along river courses (oxbow lakes, dams and floodplains). These environmental settings are considered as good archives of historical changes in contamination. Much less attention, however, is paid to deposits of river channels, which act as sourcing transport paths for these archives and/or build archives of their own. In order to provide a better insight into the spatio-temporal distribution of pollutants in channel deposits, we investigated contamination levels of Cu, Pb and Zn in a series of sediment cores along the River Morava, a left-hand tributary of the Danube River, Czech Republic. In particular, the relationships between metal concentrations, sediment lithology (facies), grain size, magnetic susceptibility and mineralogy and chemistry of fly-ash particles were investigated. Element chemistry and lithology of channel deposits were compared with those of the nearby floodplain deposits in the same catchment. Four river-channel facies were defined, ranging from sandy gravels to clayey silts, and confronted with the floodplain sediments. Al/Si ratios were found to be useful proxies of grain size, and Al was utilized as an excellent normalizing element for heavy metals, which filters out much of the grain size effects on contamination. The floodplain deposits are significantly less contaminated than their river-channel counterparts. Heavy-metal contamination of river bed sediments (expressed as enrichment factors, EFs) is not simply bound to fine-grained particles, and much of the contamination was found in coarse-grained, sandy facies.
Workplace	Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
Contact	Jana Kroneislová, krone@iic.cas.cz, Tel.: 311 236 931
Year of Publishing	2014

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