Microplastic distribution at different sediment depths in an urban estuary

KA Willis, R Eriksen, C Wilcox… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
As plastic production increases, so to do the threats from plastic pollution. Microplastics
(defined as plastics< 5 mm) are a subset of marine debris about which we know less than …

Ubiquity of microplastics in coastal seafloor sediments

SD Ling, M Sinclair, CJ Levi, SE Reeves… - Marine Pollution …, 2017 - Elsevier
Microplastic pollutants occur in marine environments globally, however estimates of seafloor
concentrations are rare. Here we apply a novel method to quantify size-graded (0.038–4.0 …

Current state, sources, and potential risk of heavy metals in sediments of Three Gorges Reservoir, China

H Bing, J Zhou, Y Wu, X Wang, H Sun, R Li - Environmental Pollution, 2016 - Elsevier
Heavy metal (HM) contamination in sediments of Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) is a
particularly important issue for the safety of water quality due to the potential threats of metal …

Heavy metal pollution in the derwent estuary: history, science and management

C Macleod, C Coughanowr - Regional Studies in Marine Science, 2019 - Elsevier
In this review we provide an overview of the Derwent estuary, Tasmania, Australia. The
Derwent flows through the centre of Hobart, a city with a population of approximately …

Tracing sources of pollution in soils from the **ding Pb–Zn mining district in China using cadmium and lead isotopes

H Wen, Y Zhang, C Cloquet, C Zhu, H Fan, C Luo - Applied Geochemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
Systematic variations in the Cd and Pb isotope ratios in polluted topsoils surrounding the
**ding Pb–Zn mine in China were measured so that the sources of the metals could be …

[HTML][HTML] Heavy metal deposition dynamics under improved vegetation in the middle reach of the Yangtze River

J Gong, W Ouyang, M He, C Lin - Environment International, 2023 - Elsevier
Estuarine heavy metal deposition processes in tributaries can reflect the environmental
changes in the basin and the contribution of tributaries to the pollution of downstream lakes …

Heavy metal enrichments in the Changjiang (Yangtze River) catchment and on the inner shelf of the East China Sea over the last 150 years

Y Guo, S Yang - Science of the total environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Compositions of heavy metals including Cu, Zn, Cr and Pb in three sediment cores
recovered from the lower basin of the Changjiang (Yangtze River) and the inner shelf mud of …

Source, spatial distribution and pollution assessment of Pb, Zn, Cu, and Pb, isotopes in urban soils of Ahvaz City, a semi-arid metropolis in southwest Iran

A Nazarpour, MJ Watts, A Madhani, S Elahi - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
This study examined the status of toxic metal contamination of the urban industrial city of
Ahvaz in Iran. Two hundred and twenty-seven surface soils from a depth horizon of 0–10 cm …

Distribution and variation of metals in urban river sediments in response to microplastics presence, catchment characteristics and sediment properties

B He, A Liu, GO Duodu, B Wijesiri, GA Ayoko… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite well documented studies on metal pollutants in aquatic ecosystems, knowledge on
the combined effects of catchment characteristics, sediment properties, and emerging …

Using river sediments to analyze the driving force difference for non-point source pollution dynamics between two scales of watersheds

W Ouyang, W Yang, M Tysklind, Y Xu, C Lin, X Gao… - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
The formation and transportation processes of non-point source (NPS) pollution varied
among the studied watersheds in the Northeastern China, so we hypothesized that the …