Mercury and methylmercury in riparian soil, sediments, mine-waste calcines, and moss from abandoned Hg mines in east Guizhou province, southwestern China

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 627-638

  Qiu, Guangle ^a,b   Feng, Xinbin ^a   Wang, Shaofeng ^a,b   Shang, Lihai ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED MINES; CONTAMINATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MERCURY (METAL); SEDIMENTS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; LOCAL TERRESTRIAL SYSTEMS; METHYLMERCURY; RIPARIAN SOIL;

SOILS;

ABANDONED MINE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUIZHOU; WORLD;

EID: 13244265942     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2004.09.006     Document Type: Article

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