Sedimentary environmental quality of a biosphere reserve estuary in southwestern Iberian Peninsula
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2024-03-08
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The Huelva estuary is formed by the common mouths of the Odiel and Tinto Rivers, and inside this ecosystem is the biosphere reserve of the Odiel saltmarshes. This ecosystem has been historically affected by acid mine drainage (AMD) and by releases of pollutants from five phosphoric acid industrial plants and phosphogypsum (PG) waste stacks located in the area. This study carried out a comprehensive assessment of the environmental impact of the biosphere reserve of the Odiel saltmarshes. To this end, it was necessary to find a suitable sedimentary background (Piedras River in our case). To quantify this impact, several pollution indexes were used. According to the values reached by the indexes, this impact was classified as “serious” pollution for most trace elements, excepting the deepest layers, and “low-moderate” pollution for the 238U-series radionuclides, while no pollution for the 232Th-series and 40K radionuclides was found as expected.
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Barba-Lobo, A., García-González, B., Guerrero, J. L., & Bolívar, J. P. (2024). Sedimentary environmental quality of a biosphere reserve estuary in southwestern Iberian Peninsula. In Marine Pollution Bulletin (Vol. 201, p. 116225). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116225
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