Rio Tinto estuary (Spain): 5000 Years of pollution

Environmental Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1107-1116

  Davis, R A ^a   Welty, A T ^a   Borrego, J ^b   Morales, J A ^b   Pendon, J G ^b   Ryan, J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Estuary; Massive sulfides; Open pit mining; Phosphate; Sediment pollution

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; ESTUARY; IRON; LEAD; MINING; PHOSPHORUS; SEDIMENT; SPAIN; TITANIUM; VANADIUM; WATER POLLUTION; ZINC;

ESTUARIES; OPEN PIT MINING; PHOSPHATES; RADIOMETRY; SEDIMENTATION;

SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

ESTUARY; HEAVY METAL; MINE DRAINAGE; MINE WASTE; POLLUTION;

SPAIN;

EID: 0034282303     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002549900096     Document Type: Article

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