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Geochronology of Anthropogenic Contaminants in Aquatic Sediment Archives

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Sediment archives are mind of aquatic systems.We report historical trends of marine, limnic and fluvial sediment contamination. Over the last four decades, the increasing problems of environmental contamination induced a growing interest in the fate and sources of pollution. Environmental contaminants emitted by human activities can be stored ultimately in sediments which act under these circumstances as a sink. In this context, historical monitoring studies of aquatic sediment archives are used to assess the extent and effect of human inputs in the past towards the present. This review gives a summary of the available literature concerning definitive time trends of the contamination load determined in estuarine, fluvial and limnic sedimentary archives. It gathers information about main input sources and contamination pathways as well as the spectrum of anthropogenic contaminants in aquatic sediment deposits. In addition, special chapters point to (i) the prerequisites of the methodical approach, (ii) the spectrum of sediment contaminants, (iii) suitable sedimentary archives as well as (iv) the standard methods of sediment dating. Finally, this review highlights representative studies on pollution histories exemplifying the potential of geochronological investigations on common and modern pollutants.

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    Following Klös and Schoch (1993a) “river sediments as a mind of a river”.

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