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This paper presents the calculated heavy metal (Fe, Mn, Zn, Ni, Cu, Cr, Co, Cd, and Pb) flows in suspended and dissolved forms in the main navigable branches of the Don and Kuban river deltas during the low-water period of 2013–2014. This work is based on the data of field studies in which water and suspended matter samples were collected and the turbidity and water discharge in deltas were measured. A quantitative estimate of heavy metal inflows into the deltas of the Don and Kuban rivers is provided. Transformation of flows of suspended and dissolved metal forms from the delta top to the sea edge is discussed. The influence of localities (Rostov-on-Don, Temryuk) on the increase in heavy metal flows downstream is shown, and the heavy metal flows in the deltas of the Don and Kuban rivers are compared.
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Original Russian Text © A.N. Tkachenko, O.V. Tkachenko, M.Yu. Lychagin, N.S. Kasimov, 2017, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2017, Vol. 474, No. 2, pp. 234–237.
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Tkachenko, A.N., Tkachenko, O.V., Lychagin, M.Y. et al. Heavy metal flows in aquatic systems of the Don and Kuban river deltas. Dokl. Earth Sc. 474, 587–590 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X1705018X
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