Changing redox conditions in the Baltic Sea deep basins: Impacts on the concentration and speciation of trace methods

AMBIO

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 107-112

  Brügmann, Lutz ^a   Hallberg, Rolf ^b   Larsson, Carin ^b   Löffler, Annekatrin ^c  

^a Section Biogeochemistry Dept of Geology and Geochemistry Stockholm University ^*  (Germany)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; METAL SPECIATION; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEAWATER; SPECIATION; TRACE METAL; TRACE METALS;

BALTIC SEA;

EID: 0030620693     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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50. First submitted 5 July 1995. Accepted for publication after revision 14 February 1996.