Persistent organochlorine compounds in soils and sediments of European high altitude mountain lakes

Chemosphere

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1549-1561

  Grimalt, Joan O ^a   Van Drooge, Barend L ^a   Ribes, Alejandra ^a   Vilanova, Rosa M ^a   Fernandez, Pilar ^a   Appleby, Peter ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High mountains; Lacustrine sediments; Organochlorine compounds; Soils; Trace chemical pollution in remote environments

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); LAKES; RADIOMETRY; SEDIMENTS; SOILS;

BIOTURBATION; VERTICAL GRADIENTS;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS;

CARBON; CHLORPHENOTANE; FRESH WATER; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LINDANE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOCHLORINE INSECTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; RADIOISOTOPE;

LAKE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; ORGANOCHLORINE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BIOTURBATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECHLORINATION; EUROPE; LAKE SEDIMENT; LOW TEMPERATURE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RADIOMETRY; SEDIMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOIL POLLUTION; TEMPERATURE; WATER POLLUTION;

CARPATHIANS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES; TATRA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0742272012     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2003.09.047     Document Type: Article

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