Heavy metals in freshly deposited stream sediments of rivers associated with urbanisation of the Ganga Plain, India

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 141, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 35-54

  Singh, Munendra ^a   Müller, German ^b   Singh, I B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ganga Plain; Heavy metals; Sediment pollution index; Stream sediments; Urban geochemistry

Indexed keywords

CARBON; POLLUTION; SEDIMENTS; SULFUR;

ALLUVIAL RIVERS;

HEAVY METALS;

CADMIUM; CARBON; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; SULFUR; ZINC;

HEAVY METAL; POLLUTION INCIDENCE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; URBANIZATION;

BINDING AFFINITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; INDIA; REVIEW; SEDIMENT; STREAM (RIVER); URBANIZATION; WATER POLLUTION;

GANGA PLAIN; INDIA;

AGRA;

EID: 0347296053     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021339917643     Document Type: Review

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