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Chalcophile elements (Hg, Cd, Pb, As) in Lake Umbozero, Murmansk province

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Lake Umbozero (the second largest in the area and the deepest in Murmansk province) was studied with the aim to establish the biogeochemical features of the distribution of chalcophile elements (Hg, Cd, Pb, As) in water, bottom sediments, and whitefish organs and tissues. Lake Umbozero is subject to the effect of emissions and effluents of mining-and-metallurgical plants in Murmansk province, as well as airborne anthropogenic pollution of global character. Surface and near-bed peaks were recorded in the distribution of Pb and Cd in water mass. Those peaks can be due to phytoplankton development in surface layers and the precipitation of dead organisms and mechanical suspension into bed layers. The mean Pb and Cd concentrations in Umbozero water mass exceed the mean for lake water in taiga zone. Water body pollution manifests itself in an increase in concentrations of elements, such as heavy metals, in the surface layers of bottom sediments. The largest contamination factors were recorded for Cd and Pb. Lake pollution by highly toxic chalcophile elements also caused their accumulation in whitefish organs and tissues: the biological accumulation coefficient is >1 for Cd in kidneys (5.8) and for Hg in kidneys, liver, and muscles (3.6, 3.3, and 2.2, respectively).

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Dauvalter, N.A. Kashulin, 2010, published in Vodnye Resursy, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 461–476.

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Dauvalter, V.A., Kashulin, N.A. Chalcophile elements (Hg, Cd, Pb, As) in Lake Umbozero, Murmansk province. Water Resour 37, 497–512 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0097807810040093

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