Anthropogenic inventories and historical and present accumulation rates of copper in Great Lakes sediments

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 59-75

  Kolak, Jonathan J ^a   Long, David T ^a   Beals, Tina M ^a   Eisenreich, Steven J ^b   Swackhamer, Deborah L ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rutgers University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; LAKE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TIMESCALE;

NORTH AMERICA, GREAT LAKES;

EID: 0031924479     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-2927(97)00054-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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