GEOCHEMICAL AND SEDIMENTOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE PROKOPOS COASTAL LAGOON SEDIMENTS, MEDITERRANEAN SEA WESTERN GREECE

Avramidis P., Bouzos D. , Antoniou V., Kontopoulos N., Application of grain size trend analysis and spatiotemporal changes, as a tool for lagoon management. Case study the Kotychi lagoon western Greece, Geologica Carpathica 59, 2008, 261-268.

Avramidis P., Iliopoulos G., Kontopoulos N., Panagiotaras D., Barouchas P., Nikolaou K., Depositional environments, sediment characteristics and International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConfenferences SGEM 2015 www.sgem.org 15th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences SGEM2015 environmental assessment of an internationally protected shallow Mediterranean lagoon, Gialova lagoon – Navarino bay, Greece, Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, (2015), in press.

Papatheodorou G., Avramidis P., Fakiris E., Christodoulou D., Kontopoulos N., Bed diversity in the shallow water environment of Pappas lagoon in Greece, International Journal of Sediment Research 27, 2012, 1-17.

Karageorgis A.P., Sioulas A., Krasakopoulou E., Anagnostou C.L., Hatiris G.A., Kyriakidou H., Vasilopoulos K., Geochemistry of surface sediments and heavy metal contamination assessment: Messolonghi lagoon complex, Greece, Environmental Earth Science 65, 2012, 1619– 1629.

Caeiro S., Costa M.H., Ramos T.B., Assessing heavy metal contamination in Sado estuary sediment: An index analysis approach, Ecological Indices 5, 2005, 151–169.

Abrahim G.M.S., Parker R.J., Assessment of heavy metal enrichment factors and the degree of contamination in marine sediments from Tamaki Estuary, Auckland, New Zealand, Environmental Monitoring Assessment 136, 2008, –238.

Christia C., Papastergiadou E., Papatheodorou G., Geraga M., Papandrikopoulos A., Seasonal and spatial variations of water quality, substrate and aquatic macrophytes based on side scan sonar, in an eastern Mediterranean lagoon (Kaiafas, Ionian Sea), Environ Earth Science 71, 2014, 3543–3558.

Folk R.I., Petrology of sedimentary rocks, Hamphill, Austin, Texas, 1974, 182 pp.

Gaudette H., Flight W., Toner L., Folger D., An inexpensive titration method for the determination of organic carbon in recent sediments, Journal of Sedimentology Petrology 44, 1974, 249-253.

Taylor S.R., McLennan S.M., The Continental Crust: its Composition and Evolution, Blackwell, Oxford, 1985, pp. 312.

Turekian K.K., Wedepohl K.H., Distribution of the elements in some major units of the earth's crust, Geological Society of American Bulleting 72, 1961, 175- 192.

Varnanas S.P., Panagiotaras D., Wolff G.A., Biogeochemical processes at the sediment – water interface in a Northeastern Atlantic abyssal locality (Porcupine Abyssal Plain), Progress in Oceanography 50, 2001, 223- 243.

Reimann C., de Caritat P., Distinguishing between natural and anthropogenic sources for elements in the environment: Regional geochemical surveys versus enrichment factors, Science of the Total Environment 337, 2005, 91–107.

Håkanson L., An ecological risk index for aquatic pollution control: A sedimentological approach, Water Research 14, 1980, 975–1001.

Burton Jr.G.A., Sediment quality criteria in use around the world, Limnology 3, 2002, 65–75. International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConfenferences SGEM 2015 www.sgem.org

Avramidis P., Bouzos D. , Antoniou V., Kontopoulos N., Application of grain size trend analysis and spatiotemporal changes, as a tool for lagoon management. Case study the Kotychi lagoon western Greece, Geologica Carpathica 59, 2008, 261-268.

Avramidis P., Iliopoulos G., Kontopoulos N., Panagiotaras D., Barouchas P., Nikolaou K., Depositional environments, sediment characteristics and International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConfenferences SGEM 2015 www.sgem.org 15th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences SGEM2015 environmental assessment of an internationally protected shallow Mediterranean lagoon, Gialova lagoon – Navarino bay, Greece, Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, (2015), in press.

Papatheodorou G., Avramidis P., Fakiris E., Christodoulou D., Kontopoulos N., Bed diversity in the shallow water environment of Pappas lagoon in Greece, International Journal of Sediment Research 27, 2012, 1-17.

Karageorgis A.P., Sioulas A., Krasakopoulou E., Anagnostou C.L., Hatiris G.A., Kyriakidou H., Vasilopoulos K., Geochemistry of surface sediments and heavy metal contamination assessment: Messolonghi lagoon complex, Greece, Environmental Earth Science 65, 2012, 1619– 1629.

Caeiro S., Costa M.H., Ramos T.B., Assessing heavy metal contamination in Sado estuary sediment: An index analysis approach, Ecological Indices 5, 2005, 151–169.

Abrahim G.M.S., Parker R.J., Assessment of heavy metal enrichment factors and the degree of contamination in marine sediments from Tamaki Estuary, Auckland, New Zealand, Environmental Monitoring Assessment 136, 2008, –238.

Christia C., Papastergiadou E., Papatheodorou G., Geraga M., Papandrikopoulos A., Seasonal and spatial variations of water quality, substrate and aquatic macrophytes based on side scan sonar, in an eastern Mediterranean lagoon (Kaiafas, Ionian Sea), Environ Earth Science 71, 2014, 3543–3558.

Folk R.I., Petrology of sedimentary rocks, Hamphill, Austin, Texas, 1974, 182 pp.

Gaudette H., Flight W., Toner L., Folger D., An inexpensive titration method for the determination of organic carbon in recent sediments, Journal of Sedimentology Petrology 44, 1974, 249-253.

Taylor S.R., McLennan S.M., The Continental Crust: its Composition and Evolution, Blackwell, Oxford, 1985, pp. 312.

Turekian K.K., Wedepohl K.H., Distribution of the elements in some major units of the earth's crust, Geological Society of American Bulleting 72, 1961, 175- 192.

Varnanas S.P., Panagiotaras D., Wolff G.A., Biogeochemical processes at the sediment – water interface in a Northeastern Atlantic abyssal locality (Porcupine Abyssal Plain), Progress in Oceanography 50, 2001, 223- 243.

Reimann C., de Caritat P., Distinguishing between natural and anthropogenic sources for elements in the environment: Regional geochemical surveys versus enrichment factors, Science of the Total Environment 337, 2005, 91–107.

Håkanson L., An ecological risk index for aquatic pollution control: A sedimentological approach, Water Research 14, 1980, 975–1001.

Burton Jr.G.A., Sediment quality criteria in use around the world, Limnology 3, 2002, 65–75. International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConfenferences SGEM 2015 www.sgem.org