Distribution, speciation, and transport of mercury in stream-sediment, stream-water, and fish collected near abandoned mercury mines in southwestern Alaska, USA

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 260, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 21-33

  Gray, John E ^a   Theodorakos, Peter M ^a   Bailey, Elizabeth A ^a   Turner, Ralph R ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Frontier Geosciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Mercury; Stream sediment; Stream water

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; SURFACE WATER;

BIOACCUMULATION; FISH; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FISH; MERCURIALISM; MINING; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MERCURY; MINING; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034626592     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(00)00539-8     Document Type: Article

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