Lead contamination in a wetland watershed: Isotopes as fingerprints of pollution

Environmental Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1070-1076

  Marcantonio, F ^a   Flowers, G C ^a   Templin, N ^a  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

Contamination fingerprints; Lead isotopes

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ISOTOPES; LEAD; SEDIMENTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WATERSHEDS; WEATHERING; WETLANDS;

CONTAMINATION FINGERTIPS; OIL REFINERY EFFLUENT; WETLAND WATERSHED;

SOIL POLLUTION;

LEAD; POLLUTION; WATERSHED; WETLAND;

BAYOU TREPAGNIER; LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

DUDLEYA EDULIS;

EID: 0034235051     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002549900093     Document Type: Article

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