Sedimentary humic substances isolated from a coastal lagoon of the Nile Delta: Physical and chemical characteristics

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 205-215

  El Sayed, Mohamed A ^a   Naga, Wafica M Aboul ^a   Beltagy, Ali I ^a   Halim, Youssef ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Egypt)

^b NONE

Author keywords

characterization; coastal lagoon; Egypt coast; elemental analysis; functional groups; humic substances; infra red spectra

Indexed keywords

FULVIC ACID; HUMIC ACID;

CHARACTERIZATION; COASTAL ENVIRONMENT; COASTAL LAGOONS; FULVIC ACID; HUMIC ACID; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; IR SPECTROSCOPY; LAGOON;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COASTAL WATERS; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LAGOON; LAKE; SEDIMENT;

EGYPT, NILE DELTA, LAKE EDKU;

EID: 0029810109     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ecss.1996.0065     Document Type: Article

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