Mercury in the Moji-Guaçu river basin, S.P - Brazil: The link between marginal lagoons and river contribution, assessed by 210Pb dating profiles

Ambio

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-51

  Tavares, Glauco Arnold ^a   Ferreira, José Roberto ^b   Magalhães, Carlos Emanuel De Carvalho ^c   Da Silva, Nivaldo Carlos ^d   Taddei, Maria Helena Tirollo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Ctro Estud Bacias H   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^d Rodovia Pocos de Caldas Andradas   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATING METHOD; LEAD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RIVER BASIN; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WATER QUALITY;

BRAZIL; MOJI-GUACU RIVER; SAO PAULO STATE;

EID: 0037328089     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-32.1.47     Document Type: Article

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33. Our gratitude to FAPESP - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo for financial support, for a grant to Glauco Arnold Tavares for his MSc thesis, and to the staff of the Instituto Florestal, Estação Experimental de Moji-Guaçu, for providing all field facilities. Dr Valery H. Kennedy, from Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, UK and Prof. Elias A.G. Zagatto, from CENA/USP, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil, are thanked for the English language improvements.
34. First submitted 1 Oct. 2001. Accepted for publication after revision 15 Febr. 2002.