Sedimentation Processes in the White Sea: The White Sea Environment Part II

320 Pages·2018·12.69 MB·English

by  Alexander P. Lisitsyn, Liudmila L. Demina

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry 82
Series Editors: Damià Barceló · Andrey G. Kostianoy
Alexander P. Lisitsyn
Liudmila L. Demina Editors
Sedimentation
Processes in the
White Sea
The White Sea Environment Part II
The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry
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Editors-in-Chief: Damia Barcelo´ (cid:129) Andrey G. Kostianoy
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Sedimentation Processes
in the White Sea
The White Sea Environment Part II
Volume Editors: Alexander P. Lisitsyn (cid:1)
Liudmila L. Demina
With contributions by
T. N. Alexсeeva (cid:1) D. F. Budko (cid:1) O. M. Dara (cid:1) L. L. Demina (cid:1)
I.V.Dotsenko(cid:1)Y.A.Fedorov(cid:1)A.A.Klyuvitkin(cid:1)A.I.Kochenkova(cid:1)
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Y. A. Novichkova (cid:1) A. N. Novigatsky (cid:1) A. E. Ovsepyan (cid:1)
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V. A. Zhuravlyov (cid:1) A. A. Zimovets
Editors
AlexanderP.Lisitsyn LiudmilaL.Demina
ShirshovInst.ofOceanology ShirshovInst.ofOceanology
RussianAcademyofSciences RussianAcademyofSciences
Moscow,Russia Moscow,Russia
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DepartmentofEnvironmentalChemistry ShirshovInstituteofOceanology
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IVM, VrijeUniversiteit Amsterdam,The Netherlands
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Universityof Bordeaux,France
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The Universityof HongKong,China
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Universityof Lancaster, UnitedKingdom
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Universityof AppliedScience, Fresenius,Idstein, Germany
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Universityof Algarve, Faro,Portugal
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Plant and SoilSciences, Universityof Delaware, USA
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Preface
ThebookTheWhiteSeaEnvironmentintheseries“TheHandbookofEnvironment
Chemistry” contains the most important results of multiannual investigations
conducted by the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of
Sciences over 2001–2016. Part II of this book aims to join results of the
multidisciplinary researches of sedimentation processes in the White Sea. The
long-term investigations in a small Arctic sea, as the White Sea is, have revealed
new regularities of sedimentation processes which are characteristic of the sub-
Arcticzones.
InPartII,forthefirsttime,theinsitusedimentationprocessesintheWhiteSea
were studied with the automatic deep-water observatories of sedimentation
(AGOS).Thisledustoestimatecontributionofsedimentarymatteroverdifferent
timescales: months, seasons, and years. The mineral, grain-size, isotopic, and
elementalcomposition,includingcertainbiogeochemicalproxies,havebeenstud-
ied in both dispersed (suspended particulate matter and vertical fluxes of settling
particles) and consolidated (bottom sediments) forms of sedimentary matter. It
allowed us to estimate the biogeochemical processes of transformation, which
take place within the water column in such key areas of the White Sea as the
riverine–seawaterinterface.
The development history in Holocene and a three-member structure of
the Quaternary cover have been revealed. Environmental conditions versus
abundance and species composition of microalgae associations have been studied
inbottomsediments,whichimprovedourknowledgeaboutrelationshipsbetween
different ecosystem components. The mineral phases of sedimentary matter
at different stages of sediment formation have been documented. A specific
character of the early diagenesis was revealed, as well as regularities of heavy
metal accumulation, including the most toxic mercury, as well as aliphatic
and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in bottom sediments of different areas
ofthesub-ArcticWhiteSea.
This book is addressed to the specialists working in various fields of environ-
mentalproblems,especiallyinmarinegeology,ecology,andbiogeochemistry.
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