Trends in the solid phase partitioning of metals in the Thames Estuary sediments during recent decades

Estuaries

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 494-503

  O'Reilly Wiese, S B ^a   Emmerson, R H C ^a   MacLeod, C L ^a   Lester, J N ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; METAL; METALS; PARTITIONING; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION; SEWAGE;

ENGLAND; THAMES ESTUARY; TILBURY BASIN; US;

EID: 1842326221     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352609     Document Type: Article

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