Environmental magnetic responses of urbanization processes: evidence from lake sediments in East Lake, Wuhan, China

We present a study on the environmental magnetic response to urbanization processes from nine sediment cores from East Lake in Wuhan, China. The concentration of magnetic particles, heavy metals and organic matter in the upper 2–18 cm of the sediment cores have been significantly elevated due to the input of coarse magnetite grains from industrial (e.g. power generation and steelmaking) and other ...