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Lake Sediments: Sources or Sinks of Industrially Mobilized Elements?

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Restoration and Recovery of an Industrial Region

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The once rather pessimistic outlook on the environmental impact of trace elements dispersed from Sudbury’s smelters is gradually being replaced by a more optimistic view. The optimism has been prompted by several clear indications that the recent period of declining smelter emissions has resulted in both biological (Gunn and Keller 1990; Keller et al. 1992a) and chemical (Keller et al. 1992b) improvements in local lakes.

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  1. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Cooperative Freshwater Ecology Unit, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

    John M. Gunn

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Belzile, N., Morris, J.R. (1995). Lake Sediments: Sources or Sinks of Industrially Mobilized Elements?. In: Gunn, J.M. (eds) Restoration and Recovery of an Industrial Region. Springer Series on Environmental Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2520-1_14

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