Use of pre-industrial floodplain lake sediments to establish baseline river metal concentrations downstream of Alberta oil sands: a new approach for detecting pollution of rivers

In the Alberta oil sands region, insufficient knowledge of pre-disturbance reference conditions has undermined the ability of the Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program (RAMP) to detect pollution of the Athabasca River, because sampling began three decades after the industry started and the river natu...

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Main Authors: Johan A Wiklund, Roland I Hall, Brent B Wolfe, Thomas WD Edwards, Andrea J Farwell, D George Dixon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2014-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/12/124019