On the 1995 flooding of the rivers Meuse, Rhine and Waal in the Netherlands: metal concentrations in deposited river sediments

Wolterbeek, Hubert Th.; Verburg, T.G.; Meerten, Th. G. van

doi:10.1016/0016-7061(96)00004-3

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“…The heavy metal concentrations in settled sediment collected in the area under study were in accordance with the values reported in our study after the flooding of the river during the winter of 1993-1994 (23). Wolterbeek et al (24) found higher metal concentrations in settled sediment in comparison to the topsoil after the flooding of the river in 1995. However, the higher concentrations in settled sediment did not result in a distinct increase in the metal content ofthe topsoil.…”

Section: Discussion Soil and Flood Depositsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human health risk assessment: A case study involving heavy metal soil contamination after the flooding of the river Meuse during the winter of 1993-1994.

Albering

Leusen²,

Moonen³

et al. 1999

Environ Health Perspect

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Section: Discussion Soil and Flood Depositsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human health risk assessment: A case study involving heavy metal soil contamination after the flooding of the river Meuse during the winter of 1993-1994.

Albering

Leusen²,

Moonen³

et al. 1999

Environ Health Perspect

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“…The I geo is a widely used index of heavy metal pollution in Europe (Förstner and Müller, (Martin, 1997(Martin, , 2000. Although the I geo values for the Lahn valley indicate anthropogenic enrichment of metals in nearchannel sediments, the mean metal concentrations are generally less than those documented in more urban drainage basins of Germany such as the Rhine (Japenga et al, 1990;Dehner, 1994;Wolterbeek et al, 1996) and Elbe (Brügmann, 1995). Along the Elbe River in northern Germany, mean Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn values in near-channel positions are 2 -4 Â the values found in the Lahn River valley (Brügmann, 1995).…”

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Heavy metal storage in near channel sediments of the Lahn River, Germany

Martin

2004

Geomorphology

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“…Flood 1995 sediments (Rhine-Meuse-Waal) Thin layer 7.0-11.1 (means) Wolterbeek et al (1996) Floodplain (Rhine-Meuse-Waal) 10-15 cm depth 4.3-8.9 (means) Wolterbeek et al (1996) Lakes in Lake Ketelmeer Down to 14 cm max. 1.9-5.3 Van den Berg et al (2001) reflects the importance of plant debris, while the absence of carbohydrate-based products indicates that degradation of the more labile substances of plant-derived OM (and also of phytoplankton) has occurred.…”

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“…In 1995 there was an extremely high peak flow for the Rhine and Meuse rivers. Suspended matter and sediment deposited during the resulting floods contained around 6–11% organic C (Wolterbeek et al, 1996; Koelmans, 1998). Floodplain sediments or aquatic sediments in floodplain lakes have contents varying from close to detection limit to about 15% (Wolterbeek et al, 1996; Van Griethuysen et al, 2003, 2004; Vijver et al, 2008).…”

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The mineralogy of suspended matter, fresh and Cenozoic sediments in the fluvio-deltaic Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt–Ems area, the Netherlands: An overview and review

Griffioen

Klaver

Westerhoff

2016

Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

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Minerals are the building blocks of clastic sediments and play an important role with respect to the physico-chemical properties of the sediment and the lithostratigraphy of sediments. This paper aims to provide an overview of the mineralogy (including solid organic matter) of sediments as well as suspended matter as found in the Netherlands (and some parts of Belgium). The work is based on a review of the scientific literature published over more than 100 years. Cenozoic sediments are addressed together with suspended matter and recent sediments of the surface water systems because they form a geoscientific continuum from material subject to transport via recently settled to aged material. Most attention is paid to heavy minerals, clay minerals, feldspars, Ca carbonates, reactive Fe minerals (oxides, siderite, sulphides, glauconite) and solid organic matter because they represent the dominant minerals and their properties form a main issue in subsurface and water management. When possible and relevant, the amounts, provenance, relationship with grain size distribution, early diagenesis and palaeohydrological evolution are described. Tables with statistical data about the mineral contents and isotopic composition of carbonates and organic matter are presented as overviews. The review on the mineralogy of Dutch fluvial and marine environments is more extensive than that for the other sedimentary environments because the first two have been studied much more intensively than the others and they also form the larger part of the Dutch deposits. The focus is on the natural background mineralogy of Dutch sediments, but this is hard for recent sediments, largely because the massive hydraulic infrastructure present in the Netherlands has probably also affected the mineralogy and geochemistry of sediments deposited in recent centuries. Many findings are summarised, several of which lead to more general insights for the Dutch situation. Ca carbonates in sediments often have several provenances and thus must be considered as mixtures. Dolomite is commonly present in addition to calcite. The importance of biotite as weatherable mica is unclear. Weathering of heavy minerals plays some role but it is unclear in which way it affects the heavy mineral associations. Clays are usually dominated by illite, smectite and their interstratified variant, while kaolinite is usually below 20% and chlorite below 5%. Vermiculite is a minor constituent in fluvial clays and its illitisation presumably happens during early diagenesis in the marine environment. Opaque Fe hydroxides can be present in addition to Fe oxyhydroxide coatings and both will play a role in redox chemistry as reactive Fe minerals. Feldspars in marine sediments must be present but they have not been properly studied. The genesis of rattle stones and carbonate concretions has not been completely elucidated. The fraction of terrigeneous organic matter in estuarine and coastal marine sediments is substantial. The available data and information are spread irregularly over the country and the reviewed information discussed in this paper is derived from relatively small-scale studies dealing with a limited amount of analysed samples. Much information is available from the Scheldt estuaries in the southwestern part of the Netherlands partly due to the severe contamination of the Western Scheldt in recent decades.

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On the 1995 flooding of the rivers Meuse, Rhine and Waal in the Netherlands: metal concentrations in deposited river sediments

Cited by 5 publications

References 3 publications

Human health risk assessment: A case study involving heavy metal soil contamination after the flooding of the river Meuse during the winter of 1993-1994.

Human health risk assessment: A case study involving heavy metal soil contamination after the flooding of the river Meuse during the winter of 1993-1994.

Heavy metal storage in near channel sediments of the Lahn River, Germany

The mineralogy of suspended matter, fresh and Cenozoic sediments in the fluvio-deltaic Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt–Ems area, the Netherlands: An overview and review

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