Persistent organic pollutants in subarctic lakes in the extreme North of European Russia
- Authors: Troyanskaya A.F.1, Velyamidova A.V.1
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							Affiliations: 
							- Institute of Ecological Problems of the North, Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research
 
- Issue: Vol 44, No 4 (2017)
- Pages: 635-644
- Section: Water Quality and Protection: Environmental Aspects
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0097-8078/article/view/174244
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0097807817040170
- ID: 174244
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Abstract
The paper presents data on the concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in bottom sediments of subarctic lakes on Vaygach Isl. and in the Polar Cis-Urals in the Northern European Russia. Dioxin pollution is estimated at the background level, and the recorded levels of hexachlorobenzene fall within the concentration range identified in the bottom sediments of small lakes in the southwestern Arkhangelsk region. The specific character of the congener profile of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans in bottom sediments is demonstrated, suggesting a relationship between the pollution that forms under the effect of atmospheric transport of persistent organic pollutants from low latitudes in the past and present and the application of dioxin-containing organochlorine chemicals in timber industry.
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A. F. Troyanskaya
Institute of Ecological Problems of the North, Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research
							Author for correspondence.
							Email: labecoarh@yandex.ru
				                					                																			                												                	Russian Federation, 							Arkhangelsk, 163000						
A. V. Velyamidova
Institute of Ecological Problems of the North, Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research
														Email: labecoarh@yandex.ru
				                					                																			                												                	Russian Federation, 							Arkhangelsk, 163000						
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