Screening assessment of dissolved zinc from inactive mines in a mountain watershed

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 147-176

  Caruso, Brian S ^a   Loftis, Jim C ^a  

^a Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Inactive mines; Screening assessment; Zinc

Indexed keywords

INACTIVE METAL MINES; MOUNTAIN WATERSHEDS;

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); MINES; RIVERS; RUNOFF; WATERSHEDS; ZINC;

WATER POLLUTION;

RUNOFF; ZINC;

MEASUREMENT METHOD; MINE; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; STREAMWATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHED; ZINC;

ARTICLE; MINING; RIVER; TROUT; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION;

UNITED STATES;

SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 0033042077     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005951502880     Document Type: Article

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