Geochemical analysis of Lake Bant sediments to ascertain inorganic and organic indicators for warfare residues |
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| Authors: | Jan Schwarzbauer Sven Sindern Larissa Dsikowitzky Gerd Liebezeit |
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| Institution: | 1.Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of Petroleum and Coal,RWTH Aachen University,Aachen,Germany;2.Center for Tropical Marine Ecology,Bremen,Germany;3.Institute of Mineralogy and Economic Geology,RWTH Aachen University,Aachen,Germany;4.ICBM-Terramare,Wilhelmshaven,Germany |
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| Abstract: | Purpose The immediate time period after the Second World War (1945–1946) was characterised by an urgent need to dispose large amounts
of ammunition residues. Although the environmental relevance of explosives released to soils is intensively investigated,
to date, their fate and effects in marine ecosystems are not well known. Surface sediments from Lake Bant, Germany, for which
deposition of an enhanced amount of ammunition after World War II has been reported, were analysed to identify organic and
inorganic indicators for warfare residues. Additionally, samples of ammunition residues collected from the Wadden Sea, Germany,
were analysed in order to obtain information on the long-term behaviour of explosives in undamaged ammunition left in the
aquatic environment and to obtain first insights into the spectrum of organic substances which are possibly released to the
aquatic environment by such ammunition residues. |
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