Contaminants in sediments: Using robust regression for grain-size normalization

Estuaries

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 197-203

  Grant, Alastair ^a   Middleton, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

EID: 0031702835     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352468     Document Type: Article

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