The effect of grain size and element concentration in identifying contaminant sources

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 305-312

  Mudge, Stephen M ^a   Birch, Gavin F ^b   Matthai, Carsten ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Metals; Newcastle; PCA; PLS; Sediment; Size fractionated; Sydney

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642378916     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/714044374     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Barbanti, A., and Bothner, M. H. 1993. A procedure for partitioning bulk sediments into distinct grain-size fractions for geochemical analysis. Environ. Geol. 21:3–13.
2. Birch, G. F. 1996. Sediment-bound metallic contaminants in Sydney’s estuaries and adjacent offshore, Australia. Estuarine Coastal Shelf Sci. 42:31–44.
3. Birch, G. F., and Davey, S. 1995. Accumulation of metallic contaminants in surficial sediments on a high energy continental shelf (Sydney, Australia). Sci. Total Environ. 170:81–93.
4. Birch, G. F., Evenden, D., and Teutsch, M. E. 1996. Dominance of point source in heavy metal distributions in sediments of a major Sydney estuary (Australia). Environ. Geol. 28:169–174.
5. Birch, G. F., Ingleton, T., and Taylor, S. E. 1997. Environmental implications of dredging in the world’s second largest coal exporting harbour, Port Hunter, Australia. J. Marine Env. Eng. 4:133–145.
6. Birch, G. F., and Taylor, S. E. 1999. Source of heavy metals in sediment of the Port Jackson estuary, Australia. Sci. Total Environ. 27:123–138.
7. Birch, G. F., and Taylor, S. E. 2000. The use of size-normalization procedures in the analysis of organic contaminants in estuarine environments. Hydrobiologia 431:129–133.
8. Brook, E. J., and Moore, J. N. 1988. Particle-size and chemical control of As, Cd, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn in bed sediment from the Clark Fork River, Montana (U.S.A.). Sci. Total Environ. 76:247–266.
9. Bubb, J. M., Rudd, T., and Lester, J. N. 1991. Distribution of heavy metals in the River Yare and its associated broads. III. Lead and zinc. Sci. Total Environ. 102:189–208.
10. Davies, P. J. 1979. Marine geology of the continental shelf off southeast Australia. Bulletin 195. Canberra, Australia: Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Mineral Resources.
11. Forstner, U., and Wittmann, G. T. W. 1979. Metal Pollution in the Aquatic Environment. New York: Springer-Verlag.
12. Grant, A., and Middleton, R. 1990. An assessment of metal contamination of sediments in the Humber Estuary, U.K. Estuarine Coastal Shelf Sci. 31:71–85.
13. Harland, B. J., Taylor, D., andWither, A. 2000. The distribution of mercury and other trace metals in the sediments of the Mersey Estuary over 25 years 1974–1998. Sci. Total Environ. 253:45–62.
14. Krumgalz, B. S., Fainshtein, G., and Cohen, A. 1992. Grain size effect on anthropogenic trace metal and organic matter distribution in marine sediments. Sci. Total Environ. 116:15–30.
15. Loring, D. H. 1991. Normalization of heavy-metal data from estuarine and coastal sediments. J. Mar. Sci. 48:101–115.
16. Matthai, C., and Birch, G. F. 2000a. Trace metals and organochlorines in sediments near a major ocean outfall on a high energy continental margin (Sydney, Australia). Environ. Pollution 110:411–423.
17. Matthai, C., and Birch, G. F. 2000b. Impact of coastal cities on surficial sediments mantling an adjacent high energy continental margin—Central New South Wales, Australia. Mar. Freshwater Res. 51:565–576.
18. Matthai, C., and Birch, G. F. 2000c. Dispersion of dredge spoil dumped on a high energy continental margin (southeastern Australia). J. Mar. Env. Eng. 6:1–32.
19. Matthai, C., and Birch, G. F. 2001. Detection of anthropogenic Cu, Pb and Zn in continental shelf sediments off Sydney, Australia—A new approach using normalization with cobalt. Mar. Pollution Bull. 42:1055–1063.
20. Matthai, C., Birch, G. F., and Bickford, G. P. 2002. Anthropogenic trace metals in sediment and settling particulate matter on a high-energy continental shelf (Sydney, Australia). Mar. Environ. Res. 54:99–127.
21. Mudge, S. M. 2002. Aspects of hydrocarbon fingerprinting using PLS—New data from Prince William Sound. Environ. Forensics 3: 323–329.
22. Mudge, S. M., Assinder, D. J., and Russell, A. 2003. Meso-scale variation of radionuclides in sediments: Normalization and the implications for sampling. Technical Report P3-093/TR, Environment Agency.
23. Ridgway, K. R., and Dunn, J. R. 2003. Mesoscale structure of the mean East Australian current system and its relationship with topography. Prog. Ocean. 56:189–222.
24. Smedes, F., Davies, I. M., Wells, D., Allan, A., and Besada, V. 2000. Quality assurance of sampling and sample handling (QUASH): Interlaboratory study on sieving and normalization of geographically different sediments. EU Standards, Measurements and Testing Programme.