Fingerprinting arsenic contamination in the sediments of the Hylebos waterway, commencement Bay Superfund Site, Tacoma, Washington

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 359-368

  Mariner, Paul E ^a   Holzmer, Fred J ^a   Jackson, Richard E ^a   White, Janis E ^a   Wahl, Allan S ^b   Wolf, Frederick G ^c  

^a INTERA Incorporated   (United States)

^b BOATENG and Associates Inc   (United States)

^c NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Cluster Analysis; Discriminant Analysis; Fingerprinting; Forensics; Slag

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; FINGERPRINTING; SEDIMENT CONTAMINATION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

USA, WASHINGTON, TACOMA, COMMENCEMENT BAY SUPERFUND SITE;

EID: 0031425073     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.iii.3.359     Document Type: Article

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