Distribution, hydrologic transport, and cycling of total mercury and methyl mercury in a contaminated river-reservoir-wetland system (Sudbury River, eastern Massachusetts)

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1080-1091

  Waldron, Marcus C ^a   Colman, John A ^a   Breault, Robert F ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; RESERVOIR; RIVER; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER FLOW; WETLAND;

MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RIPARIAN ZONE; RIVER POLLUTION; WETLAND;

MASSACHUSETTS; SUDBURY RIVER; UNITED STATES;

RIPARIA;

EID: 0033926694     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f00-041     Document Type: Article

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