Heavy metal pollution of coastal river sediments, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia: Lead isotope and chemical evidence

Environmental Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 118-126

  Lottermoser, B G ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Heavy metals; Lead isotopes; River sediments

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; DRAINAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ESTUARIES; HEAVY METALS; NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTATION; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

SEDIMENTARY TRAPS; STREAM-ESTUARY SEDIMENTS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ESTUARINE POLLUTION; HEAVY METAL; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

AUSTRALIA;

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 0032214885     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002540050327     Document Type: Article

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