Trace metal concentrations in the crab Macrophthalmus depressus and sediments on the Kuwait coast

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 297-304

  Bu Olayan, Abdul Hadi ^a   Subrahmanyam, M N V ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; CRAB; MACROPHTHALMUS DEPRESSUS;

COPPER; LEAD; MARINE POLLUTION; NICKEL; PETROLEUM REFINING; SEDIMENTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VANADIUM; ZINC;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

COPPER; LEAD; NICKEL; TRACE METAL; VANADIUM; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; CRUSTACEAN; HEAVY METAL; OIL INDUSTRY; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TRACE METAL; WAR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BIOACCUMULATION; CRAB; KUWAIT; NONHUMAN; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; SEA POLLUTION; SEDIMENT; WAR;

KUWAIT;

ANIMALIA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; MACROPHTHALMUS; MACROPHTHALMUS DEPRESSUS;

EID: 0032210781     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005882425506     Document Type: Article

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