Field and laboratory assessment of a coal processing effluent in the Leading Creek Watershed, Meigs County, Ohio

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 324-331

  Kennedy, A J ^a   Cherry, D S ^a   Currie, R J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM; SULFATE;

BIOINDICATOR; COAL PROCESSING; EFFLUENT; WATER QUALITY;

AQUATIC FAUNA; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; COAL MINING; EFFLUENT; LC 50; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TOXICITY TESTING; UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; COAL MINING; DAPHNIA; FRESH WATER; INVERTEBRATES; MOLLUSCA; OHIO; PERCIFORMES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CERIODAPHNIA; CERIODAPHNIA DUBIA; CORBICULA; CORBICULA FLUMINEA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HYDROPSYCHIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; MUS; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 0037400332     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-002-2062-x     Document Type: Article

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