2000 years of sediment-borne heavy metal storage in the Yorkshire Ouse basin, NE England, UK

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1087-1102

  Hudson Edwards, Karen A ^a,b   Macklin, Mark G ^b   Taylor, Mark P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical flux; Heavy metal storage; Overbank sediment; Sediment flux; Yorkshire Ouse basin

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LEAD; ZINC;

CHEMICAL FLUXES; SEDIMENT FLUXES;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

FLOODPLAIN; HEAVY METAL; OVERBANK SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

OUSE BASIN; UNITED KINGDOM; YORKSHIRE;

EID: 0032782653     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(199905)13:7<1087::AID-HYP791>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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