Peat Ontario, Quebec 1997

Peat sampling survey, NTS 31M, 32D, Rouyn-Noranda area, Ontario and Quebec, 1997.  


Geological Survey of Canada, Terrain Sciences Division

Survey Description

Profile samples were collected from peat hummocks and hollows at 41 sites and feather moss from 15 peatland sites within 100 km of the Horne smelter at Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec in 1997. The data are published in Geological Survey of Canada Open File 3882.

Data Description: Paper report; data files on diskette.

Quantities Analysed: Peat samples analyzed by ICP-AES after nitric-perchloric acid digestion for 23 elements and by LOI; feather moss by INAA for 23 elements; <0.063 mm fraction of mineral sediment samples by ICP-AES after HNO3-HCl digestion for 23 elements.

Geochem Plots Available: Proportional symbol maps show dispersal of elements in surface peat.



Publication History

Kettles, I.M., Dion, K.M. (2000). Geochemical composition of hummock and hollow peat and feather moss in the vicinity of the Horne smelter, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 3882, 185 pages (includes diskette).

Bonham-Carter, G.F., Kettles, I.M. (2001). Estimating the size of a metal anomaly around a base-metal smelter in Quebec, Canada, using peatland data: a Monte Carlo error analysis, In D.F. Merriam and J.C. Cavis (Eds.), Geologic Modeling and Simulation: Sedimentary Systems, Kluwer-Plenum Publishers, New York, pp. 303-326.

Kettles, I.M., Bonham-Carter, G.F. (2002). Modelling dispersal of metals from a Cu-Zn smelter at Rouyn-Noranda (Quebec, Canada) using peatland data. Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis, 2(1).


Project History

1997-2000 Point Sources initiative - Rouyn-Noranda area, Quebec and Ontario peat sampling survey carried out in 1997.
  Peat and feather moss samples were collected in 1997 in Ontario and Quebec, within a 100 km radius of the Horne smelter at Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. The purpose of the Point Sources initiative was to determine and compare the physical and geochemical record of particulate smelter emissions in surficial media and to evaluate the impact of anthropogenic loading on these natural systems. The data are published in Geological Survey of Canada Open File 3882.



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