Distribution of the rare earth elements in the small catchment Lesní potok

Lanthanides (REE) are particularly useful as tracers of natural processes such as crust and mantle processes, weathering, sedimentary processes, geochemical processes in surface and groundwaters and transport of particulate material through the atmosphere. The aim of this study was to contribute to explanation of the REE cycling by evaluating their concentration in particular components of the ecosystem and by comparing their distributions between these components