Seasonal uranium distributions in the coastal waters off the Amazon and Mississippi Rivers

Estuaries

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 379-390

  Swarzenski, Peter W ^a,b   McKee, Brent A ^a,c  

^a Louisiana Universities Mar C   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PROPERTY; COASTAL WATERS; ESTUARINE CHEMISTRY; RIVER DISCHARGE; URANIUM;

AMAZON RIVER; AMAZON SHELF; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL; GULF OF MEXICO; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; MISSISSIPPI SHELF; PARA STATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031705708     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352837     Document Type: Article

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