The Geochemical Features of the River Discharge to the White Sea

In the present chapter, the results of detailed investigations of the river discharge into the White Sea are considered. The White Sea is an inland sea of Russian western Arctic territory that appears as the sub-Arctic sea. This sea may serve as a good example for case studies of the Arctic seas. Significant river discharge to this relatively small sea plays very important role in all the processes in it. It’s evident that the detailed knowledge is needed both on the volumes of water and suspended matter fluxes, and also about the chemical composition of water and grain-size, mineralogical, and chemical composition of suspended particulate matter (SPM), that are formed on the extensive area of the basin.