Summary
During the period 1992-1996, the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU) and Finland (GTK) and the Central Kola E¤xpedition (CKE) are carrying out a joint project on eco-geochemical mapping and monitoring within an area extending from longi- tudes at 24° to 35.5° E with the Barents Sea as the northern project boundary and southward to the Arctic Circle in Finland and to the boundary between the Murmansk and Karelia regions in Russia. As a part of this project. a detailed study of eight catchment areas (three in Finland (Kirakka, Naruska, Pallas), one in Norway (Skjellbekken) and four in Russia (Zapoljarnij, Monchegorsk, Kirovsk, Kurka) was carried out during 1994. The following sample media were tsaken for this catchment study: snowpack, rainwater, strem water, groundwater, organic stream sediment, moss, topsoil, podzol profiles, quaternary deposits and bedrocks. The report sum- marises, compares and interprets all analytical results obtained from the catchment study.
