Initial development and evaluation of a sediment quality index for the Great Lakes Region

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1549-1567

  Grapentine, Lee ^a   Marvin, Chris ^a   Painter, Scott ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Great Lakes; Sediment assessment; Sediment quality index; Weight of evidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0942265395     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20028091057475     Document Type: Article

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