Factors controlling the accumulation of metals within fluvial systems

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 87-105

  Bubb, J M ^a   Lester, J N ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ARTICLE; EUROPEAN UNION; GEOLOGY; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

FLUVIAL SYSTEMS; MUNICIPAL SEWAGE TREATMENT; WATER COLUMN;

CONTAMINATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOLOGY; IMPURITIES; METALLOIDS; METALS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY;

WATER POLLUTION;

METAL ACCUMULATION; RIVER WATER QUALITY; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY;

UK, ENGLAND, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, IVEL RIVER; UK, ENGLAND, NORFOLK, YARE RIVER;

EID: 0030135162     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00394249     Document Type: Article

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