Soil erosion and sediment dynamics in the Anthropocene: a review of human impacts during a period of rapid global environmental change

PN Owens - Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2020 - Springer
Purpose Humanity has been modifying the planet in a measurable way for thousands of
years. Recently, this influence has been such that some feel we are in a new geological …

Spatiotemporal variations of heavy metal historical accumulation records and their influencing mechanisms in the Yangtze River Estuary

J Fan, D Fan, Y Wu - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Complex transformations of heavy metals in the mega-river-estuary continuum limit our
understanding of their pollution history. This study investigated sedimentary compositions of …

Integrated assessment of trace elements contamination in sediments of a typical aquaculture bay in China: Ecological toxicity, sources and spatiotemporal variation

W Wang, Y Huo, L Wang, C Lin, Y Liu, H Huang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Trace elements contamination in estuarine and bay ecosystems has become a serious
problem, especially in bays with frequent aquaculture activities. To explore the pollution risk …

Determination of heavy metal baseline levels and threshold values on marine sediments in the Bay of Biscay

L Sanz-Prada, E Garcia-Ordiales, G Flor-Blanco… - Journal of environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Several international institutions have defined background or baseline levels to assess
heavy metal concentrations on marine sediments in order to use these values as a reference …

Trace element fluxes during the “Anthropocene” in a large South American industrial and port area (Santos and São Vicente estuarine system, SE, Brazil)

JLF Angeli, JR Sartoretto, BSM Kim… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
The worldwide evidence of human activities on the environment led the scientific community
to recognize a new geologic time unit known as the “Anthropocene.” Since the twentieth …

[HTML][HTML] Modern conditions and recent environmental evolution of the industrialized inner Ría of Ferrol (Galicia, NW Spain)

J Gardoki, A Cearreta, MJ Irabien… - Continental Shelf …, 2023 - Elsevier
Galician rías provide several ecosystem services of great ecological and economic
significance in the northwestern Iberian margin, requiring a good environmental quality for …

Risk assessment of Cr, As, and Sb to aquatic communities at the water-sediment interface in the lower Yellow River, China, integrated with the Diffusive Gradients in …

F Yu, J Zhang, Y Ji, Y Fu, T Lang, T Shi, S Liu - Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
The dynamic concentrations of labile metals/metalloids, measured by the Diffusive Gradients
in Thin-films (DGT) technique, can be used for evaluating the toxicity risk of heavy metals to …

Dynamics and sedimentary assessment of a rock-bounded estuary: a case study—Tina Mayor (NW Spain, Iberian Peninsula)

G Flor-Blanco, G Flor, L Pando - Environmental Earth Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Based on a comprehensive study of the Tina Mayor estuary, a conceptual
morphosedimentary model is proposed for one of the best-preserved limestone sectors of …

Estuaries in Northern Spain: An Analysis of Their Sedimentation Rates.

J Bonachea, J Remondo… - Sustainability (2071-1050), 2024 - search.ebscohost.com
This review presents an analysis of recent sedimentation rates (SRs) in the Atlantic estuaries
of northern Spain. Sedimentation rates were derived from sediment core dating using …

Fuzzy Logic approach to detect the influence of marine vs. continental (anthropic) elements in the geochemistry of the Asturian coastline sediments

L Sanz-Prada, E García-Ordiales, AT Luís… - Regional Studies in …, 2022 - Elsevier
This work was done in 35 beaches along 400km of the of Asturias coast (north-west of
Spain). In a first approximation, by means of graphical treatment, positive and negative …