Fourteen years of palaeolimnological research of a past industrial polluted lake (L. Orta, Northern Italy): an overview
The first sediment core analyses were carried out in 1958, but it is only from 1985 onward that a modern palaeolimnological approach was applied to the study of Lake Orta, a large and deep lake in North Italy, heavily polluted by ammonia and copper for about 50 and 30 years, respectively. Thus, we s...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PAGEPress Publications
2001-08-01
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Series: | Journal of Limnology |
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Online Access: | http://www.jlimnol.it/index.php/jlimnol/article/view/382 |