Microbial Mercury Cycling in Sediments of the San Francisco Bay-Delta

Estuaries

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1517-1528

  Marvin DiPasquale, Mark ^a   Agee, Jennifer L ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTUARINE POLLUTION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0842330853     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02803660     Document Type: Article

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