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Potential mobility assessment of metals in salt marsh sediments from San Antonio Bay

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The BCR method was applied on sediments from the salt marsh of San Antonio Bay (SAB). It presents several channels among which the Encerrado is the most important and is impacted by abandoned mining wastes. The pseudototal concentrations of metals measured within this channel were relatively higher than in outer sites, and according to the Igeo index, its contamination level was low. The metal distribution in the different phases of sediment particles showed that the residual component, considered the safest from the environmental point of view, accounted for most of the Fe, Cd, Cu, and Zn contents. Conversely, Pb was mainly in the non-residual component as part of the reducible fraction, thus constituting the main environmental hazard among the studied elements. The predominance of residual and reducible fractions indicated a historic contamination of metal such as Pb, Cu, and Zn from the mining wastes. The low exchangeable and oxidizable fractions would indicate no actual input of metals.

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This study was partially funded by CONICET, through a doctoral fellowship to the first author, and Secretaria de Ciencia y Técnica of Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco (PI 1281 to MG and CM).

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    Carmen H Marinho, Erica Giarratano & Mónica N Gil

  2. Instituto de Química del Sur, INQUISUR (UNS-CONICET), Av. Alem 1253, B8000CPB, Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Claudia E Domini & Mariano Garrido

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Marinho, C.H., Giarratano, E., Domini, C.E. et al. Potential mobility assessment of metals in salt marsh sediments from San Antonio Bay. Environ Monit Assess 191, 723 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-019-7895-0

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