The impact of military activities on the concentration of mercury in soils of military training grounds and marine sediments

详细信息    查看全文

• 作者：Karolina Gębka ; Jacek Bełdowski…
• 关键词：Mercury ; Ammunition ; Sediment ; Soil ; Military training ground ; Gun range
• 刊名：Environmental Science and Pollution Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：23
• 期：22
• 页码：23103-23113
• 全文大小：996 KB
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Environment
  Environment
  Atmospheric Protection, Air Quality Control and Air Pollution
  Waste Water Technology, Water Pollution Control, Water Management and Aquatic Pollution
  Industrial Pollution Prevention
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1614-7499
• 卷排序：23

文摘

Military activities have been conducted on land and at sea. Both during conflicts and in peace time, some regions served as a military training ground which included firing positions and bunkers. Mercury fulminate has been used in ammunition primers and detonators. Certain amount of ammunition was dumped into the Baltic Sea after the Second World War. Because of corroded containers, mercury can be released into the marine environment. The soil and sediment samples were taken from military training grounds, southern Baltic in 2014 and 2015. The concentration of mercury was determined by AMA-254 analyzer. Hg concentration was higher in the places of military activities, as compared to other areas. Ten times increased concentration of Hg was determined in soil sample collected in area of active gun range compared to the reference station. The significant higher concentration of mercury was detected in stations where chemical warfare agents were found.