Metals of the bottom muds in Belize City Harbor, Belize

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 135-138

  Gibbs, Ronald J ^a   Guerra, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Department of Environment   (Belize)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; METAL; ZINC;

BIOAVAILABILITY; HEAVY METAL; MUD; POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BELIZE; BIOAVAILABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SEA POLLUTION; SPECTROMETRY; WATER SAMPLING;

BELIZE;

EID: 0031419393     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(97)00092-4     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Bowen, H. J. M. (1966) Trace Elements in Biochemistry. Academic Press, London, New York.
2. Everaarts, J. M. (1989) Heavy metals (Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb) in sediment of the Java Sea, estuarine and coastal areas of East Java and some deep-sea areas. Netherlands Journal of Sea Research 23, 403-413.
3. Everaarts, J. M. and Swennen, C. (1987) Heavy metals (Zn, Cu, Cd, Pb) in some benthic invertebrate species and in sediment from three coastal areas in Thailand and Malaysia. Journal of Science Society Thailand 13, 189-203.
4. Förstner, U. and Wittman, G. T. W. (1979) Metal Pollution in the Aquatic Environment, 1st edn. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, New York.
5. Förstner, U. and Wittman, G. T. W. (1981) Metal Pollution in the Aquatic Environment, 2nd edn. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, New York.
6. Gibbs, R. J. (1993) Metals of the bottom muds in Townsville Harbor, Australia. Environmental Pollution 81(3), 297-300.
7. Long, E. R., MacDonald, D. D., Smith, S. L. and Calder, F. D. (1995) Incidence of adverse biological effects within ranges of chemical concentrations in marine, and estuarine sediments. Environment Management (in press).
8. Martin, T. D., Brockhoff, C. A., Creed, J. T., and Long S. E. (1992) Determination of metals and trace elements in water and wastes by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry, method 200. 7. Methods for Determination of Metals, 33-91.
9. Turekian, K. K. and Wedepohl, K. H. (1961) Distribution of the elements in some major units of the earth's crust. Bulletin of Geological Society of America 72, 175-192.
10. Windom, H. L., Silpipats, S., Chanpongsang, A., Smith, R. G. and Hungspreugs, M. (1984) Trace metal composition and accumulation rates of sediments in the upper Gulf of Thailand. Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science 19, 133-142.
11. World Bank (1996) Belize environmental report. Report N. 115543-BEL.