Horizontal and vertical variabilities of mercury concentration and speciation in sediments of the Gdansk Basin, Southern Baltic Sea

Chemosphere

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 645-654

  Beldowski, Jacek ^a   Pempkowiak, Janusz ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cores; Dating; Humic; Sequential extraction; Sulphide

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EXTRACTION; MERCURY (METAL); SEDIMENTS; WATER POLLUTION;

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY;

CATCHMENTS;

MERCURY; ORGANIC MATTER; SULFIDE;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; MARINE SEDIMENT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); REMOBILIZATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

ACIDIFICATION; BALTIC SEA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFERENCE PAPER; EXTRACTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEASUREMENT; MERCURIALISM; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; SANDY SOIL; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

BALTIC SEA;

EID: 0038015562     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(03)00246-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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