Pollution History of the Chesapeake Bay. National Status and Trends Program for211 Marine Environmental Quality

摘要

Sediment cores were collected at six sites throughout the main stem of the211u001eChesapeake Bay as part of the NOAA Status and Trends program. The sites were 211u001eselected to encompass the range of geochemical environments found in the Bay, 211u001ewhere high temporal resolution was expected. This multi-disciplinary project 211u001eexamined the historical record, focusing primarily on recently deposited 211u001esediments, to assess natural processes operating in the Bay, and the extent of 211u001ehuman influences on these processes. The scope of this project was to measure a 211u001erange of physical properties and inorganic chemical species as indicators of 211u001enatural and anthropogenic processes within the sediment column.