What is it about?
Suspended Particulate Matter are complex components of River systems. They are constituted of minerals, organic compounds and microbes. We have shown that for a French watershed, the composition of natural SPM was rather stable and only the regime flow was involved in SPM variations.
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Why is it important?
The SPM composition is a critical information to get in order to better understand the SPM reactivity towards metallic contamination as the Zn is high in this watershed.
Perspectives
In order to better characterize the SPM, other markers could be used as isotopic markers. The evolution of SPM composition should be investigated during a storm event in order to better understand the SPM composition evolution during a single storm event.
Dr Mathieu Le Meur
Universite de Lorraine
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This page is a summary of: Characterization of suspended particulate matter in the Moselle River (Lorraine, France): evolution along the course of the river and in different hydrologic regimes, Journal of Soils and Sediments, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-015-1335-8.
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