Peculiarities of Distribution and Accumulation of Heavy Metals in Anthropogenic Silts of the Pakhra River Basin

G. G. Akhtyamova Yu. G. Tatsii and E. P. Yanin

The bottom sediments of minor rivers undergo the considerable changes in industrial urbanized and agricultural regions. They differ from the river alluvium in the content and form of chemical elements that is caused by the specificity of enterprises located on the territory adjoining the rivers.