التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Temporal variations of chemical weathering fluxes in boreal rivers under permafrost conditions. Example of the Nizhnaya Tunguska watershed (Central Siberia) |
| المؤلفون: |
Bagard, M. L., Chabaux, F., Pokrovsky, O. S., Prokushkin, A. S., Viers, J., Dupré, B. |
| سنة النشر: |
2008 |
| المجموعة: |
The Open University: Open Research Online (ORO) |
| الوصف: |
Boreal regions will be very sensitive to global warming which should induce an important reduction of the permafrost area, and also probably a significant modification of the hydrological regime of these high latitude regions. In permafrost areas the hydrological characteristics of rivers are indeed very specific with the occurrence of three highly contrasted periods: a very low water period from October to May, a spring flood in May/June, and a relatively high water period in summer, from June to the end of September [1]. However, previous geochemical studies interested in boreal systems do not take these temporal variations into account. In this work, we propose to characterize the temporal variability of dissolved chemical fluxes carried by boreal rivers under permafrost conditions. For this purpose, two rivers draining the South of the basaltic plateau of Putorana in Central Siberia (Kochechumo and Nizhnaya Tunguska) were sampled along the year and an extended spatial sampling of the watershed was carried out during the summer. The dissolved load of these water samples were analysed for major and trace element concentrations as well as for strontium and uranium isotopic compositions On the basis of element concentration variations, three periods can be marked out, matching the three hydrological periods. Variations of concentration ratios as well as variations of Sr isotope ratios show however that annual concentration pattern cannot be explained solely by dilution processes but have to involve the contribution of different sources. Thus, the significant increase of aluminium and iron concentrations when the spring flood discharge occurs is certainly linked to the presence of colloidal substances, most likely originating from upper soil horizons during the period of snow melting. Temporal variations of ( 234 U/ 238 U) activity ratios are also observed in the dissolved load of the two rivers, with higher values in winter (>2) than in spring and summer (from 1.2 to 1.5). We propose that in winter, when all ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
conference object |
| اللغة: |
unknown |
| Relation: |
Bagard, M. L. ; Chabaux, F.; Pokrovsky, O. S.; Prokushkin, A. S.; Viers, J. and Dupré, B. (2008). Temporal variations of chemical weathering fluxes in boreal rivers under permafrost conditions. Example of the Nizhnaya Tunguska watershed (Central Siberia). In: Geophysical Research Abstracts, 10, article no. EGU2008-A-04760. |
| الاتاحة: |
https://oro.open.ac.uk/39931/ |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.7DD08DE9 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
BASE |