The solid state partitioning of contaminant metals and As in river channel sediments of the mining affected Tisa drainage basin, northwestern Romania and eastern Hungary

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1583-1595

  Bird, Graham ^a   Brewer, Paul A ^a   Macklin, Mark G ^a   Balteanu, Dan ^b   Driga, Basarab ^b   Serban, Mihaela ^b   Zaharia, Sorin ^c  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^c ARlS Design Institute   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXTRACTION; METALS; MINING; PHASE SEPARATION; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; WATER POLLUTION;

SOLID STATE PARTITIONING;

NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY;

ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HEAVY METAL; MINING; PARTITIONING; RIVER POLLUTION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

HUNGARY; ROMANIA; TISA RIVER;

EID: 0041346634     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-2927(03)00078-7     Document Type: Article

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