Heavy metals in the Ventspils Harbour: Normalization based on a multi-parameter dataset

Environmental Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 445-456

  Müller Karulis, Bärbel ^a   Poikāne, Rita ^a   Segliņš, Valdis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Harbour; Heavy metals; Monitoring sediments; Normalization; Sediment mixing

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CONTAMINATION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; PORTS AND HARBORS; SEDIMENTS;

TRACE METALS;

HEAVY METALS;

GEOCHEMISTRY; HARBOR; HEAVY METAL; HYDROCHEMISTRY; POLLUTION; SEDIMENT;

LATVIA; VENTSPILS;

EID: 17444436220     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002540100377     Document Type: Article

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