Metal and metalloid pollution in shelf sediments from the Gulf of Cádiz (Southwest Spain): Long-lasting effects of a historical mining area

V Besada, J Bellas, P Sánchez-Marín, P Bernárdez… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Gulf of Cádiz is an area historically affected by acid mine drainage and also by the
discharge of two important rivers, the Guadiana and the Guadalquivir. Metal and metalloid …

The anthropocene landscape and ecosystem services in the closure of sand mining: Paraíba do Sul River basin–Brazil

LM Ferrer, DA Rodriguez, MC Forti, F Carriello - Resources Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Geodiversity is a determinant of mining patterns, because its nature defines the interaction
with humans, type of exploitation, and, consequently, ecosystem services (ES) of the final …

Hazard potential of widespread but hidden historic offshore heavy metal (Pb, Zn) contamination (Gulf of Cadiz, Spain)

TJJ Hanebuth, ML King, I Mendes, S Lebreiro… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Natural and human-induced seabed sediment disturbances affect wide areas of the global
coastal ocean. These recurrent to chronic disturbances mobilize significant amounts of …

[HTML][HTML] Benthic community status and mobilization of Ni, Cu and Co at abandoned sea deposits for mine tailings in SW Norway

MT Schaanning, HC Trannum, S Øxnevad… - Marine pollution …, 2019 - Elsevier
During 1960–94 tailings from an ilmenite mine in southwest Norway were placed in sea
deposits in a sheltered fjord and a more exposed coastal basin. In 2015 both deposit sites …

Holocene Glaucony from the Guadiana Shelf, Northern Gulf of Cadiz (SW Iberia): New Genetic Insights in a Sequence Stratigraphy Context

A López-Quirós, FJ Lobo, I Mendes, F Nieto - Minerals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Glaucony occurrences have been reported both from exposed transgressive and overlying
highstand system tracts. However, its occurrences within highstand deposits are often …

[HTML][HTML] Uranium as reference element to estimate the background of “Anthropocene” sensitive trace elements in sediments of the land-ocean continuum (Ulla-Arousa …

MÁ Álvarez-Vázquez, G Farinango, R Prego - Continental Shelf Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Determining the background is a crucial step in differentiating between natural and
anthropogenic components in environmental samples. Geochemical normalization is a …

[HTML][HTML] Transport and distributions of naturally and anthropogenically sourced trace metals and arsenic in submarine canyons

M Tarrés, M Cerdà-Domènech… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Continental margins play a key role in the cycling of natural and anthropogenic trace metals
(TMs) as pathways at the interface between landmasses and deep ocean basins but also as …

Early metal pollution in southwestern Europe: the former littoral lagoon of El Almarjal (Cartagena mining district, SE Spain). A sedimentary archive more than 8000 …

JI Manteca, M Ros-Sala, S Ramallo-Asensio… - … Science and Pollution …, 2017 - Springer
A borehole drilling campaign has allowed the study of a former littoral lagoon located next to
the harbour city of Cartagena in South-East Spain (close to the Sierra de Cartagena …

Temporal variability of flooding events of Guadiana River (Iberian Peninsula) during the middle to late Holocene: Imprints in the shallow-marine sediment record

I Mendes, FJ Lobo, TJJ Hanebuth… - Palaeogeography …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sedimentological, geochemical and benthic foraminiferal proxies were used to interpret
changes of depositional environments in a mud entrapment inside the Guadiana River …

Application of fuzzy logic tools for the biogeochemical characterisation of (un) contaminated waters from Aljustrel mining area (South Portugal)

AT Luís, JA Grande, JM Davila, J Aroba, N Durães… - Chemosphere, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Aljustrel mining area (South Portugal) belongs to the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB). It is
classified of high environmental risk due to its large tailings and to the Acid Mine Drainage …