The Lenga Estuary is a small brackish wetland located southwest of San Vicente Bay, Region VIII, Chile. Surface sediment from nine sites in the estuary were analysed for PAHs and compared to Sediment Quality Guidelines ...

Laguna San Rafael is an estuarine basin at the base of an active glacier in the process of regression, which forms part of Chile’s remote Northern Ice Fields. The basin is about 140 m in maximum depth and is connected ...

The present study determined the main sources of Zn enrichment at the head of Aysén Fjord. The study considered the analysis of the river sediments that enter the fjord (fluvial record), the marine sediments at the head ...