Herbicide concentrations in the Mississippi River Basin - The importance of chloroacetanilide herbicide degradates

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 321, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 189-199

  Rebich, R A ^a   Coupe, R H ^a   Thurman, E M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroacetanilide; Degradates; Herbicides; Mississippi River; Tile drains; Triazine

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; DRAINAGE; HERBICIDES; HYDROLOGY; LAND USE; PESTICIDES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

HERBICIDE CONCENTRATION; HERBICIDE DEGRADATION;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ACETOCHLOR; ANILIDE; HERBICIDE; METOLACHLOR; PESTICIDE; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEGRADATION; HERBICIDE; RIVER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; DEGRADATION; GEOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; LAND DRAINAGE; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER BASIN; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

ACETAMIDES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; RIVERS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1642421024     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2003.09.006     Document Type: Article

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