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Environmental settings of selected streams sampled for mercury in Oregon, Wisconsin, and Florida, 2002-06

Open-File Report 2008-1277
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https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20081277

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Abstract

From 2002 through 2006, the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program conducted studies investigating mercury biogeochemistry and food-web bioaccumulation in eight streams from three distinct geographic areas of the United States. These streams varied greatly in environmental characteristics, including land-cover, hydrologic, climatic, and chemical characteristics. They ranged from a clear-water, high-gradient, low-percentage wetland stream in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, to an urban stream near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to a low-gradient, blackwater stream draining the Okefenokee and Pinhook Swamps along the Georgia-Florida border. This report summarizes the environmental settings of these eight streams.

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Bell, A.H., Lutz, M., 2008, Environmental settings of selected streams sampled for mercury in Oregon, Wisconsin, and Florida, 2002-06: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1277, x, 34 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20081277.

ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)

ISSN: 0196-1497 (print)

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Environmental settings of selected streams sampled for mercury in Oregon, Wisconsin, and Florida, 2002-06
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 2008-1277
DOI 10.3133/ofr20081277
Year Published 2008
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Contributing office(s) National Water Quality Assessment Program, Upper Midwest Water Science Center
Description x, 34 p.
Time Range Start 2002-01-01
Time Range End 2006-12-31
Country United States
State Florida, Oregon, Wisconsin
Online Only (Y/N) N
Additional Online Files (Y/N) N
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