Exhaustive Screening of Long-Term Pollutants in Riverbank Sediments of the Wurm River, Germany

• Published in: Water, air, and soil pollution air, and soil pollution, 2018-06, Vol.229 (6), p.1-23, Article 197
• Main Authors: Hagemann, Lukas, Buchty-Lemke, Michael, Lehmkuhl, Frank, Alzer, Jannika, Kümmerle, Eberhard Andreas, Schwarzbauer, Jan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Anthropogenic factors; Archives; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Catchment area; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Contaminants; Depth perception; Earth and Environmental Science; Environment; Environmental monitoring; Environmental studies; Fluorescence; Fluvial sedimentation; Fluvial sediments; Geochemistry; Geomorphology; Human influences; Hydrogeology; Industrial emissions; Lasers; Lead; Low level; Mass spectrometry; Mass spectroscopy; Mercury; Mercury (metal); Organic carbon; Organic compounds; Outlets; PCB; Pollutants; Pollution; Pollution levels; Pollution sources; Polychlorinated biphenyls; River banks; River catchments; Riverbanks; Rivers; Sampling; Sediment; Sediment samplers; Sediment samples; Sedimentation; Sedimentation & deposition; Sedimentation rates; Sediments; Sediments (Geology); Size distribution; Soil Science & Conservation; Total organic carbon; Trace elements; Water analysis; Water pollution; Water Quality/Water Pollution; X ray fluorescence analysis; X-ray fluorescence; Zinc
• ISSN: 0049-6979; 1573-2932
• DOI: 10.1007/s11270-018-3843-9

Fluvial sediments can act as archives for long-term pollution. However, in environmental studies, often only preselected contaminants and, therefore, only a limited part of the pollution are considered. Herein, geochemical investigations of riverbank samples of the Wurm River (catchment