Mercury and methylmercury concentrations and loads in the Cache Creek watershed, California

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 327, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 215-237

  Domagalski, Joseph L ^a   Alpers, Charles N ^a   Slotton, Darell G ^b   Suchanek, Thomas H ^c   Ayers, Shaun M ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abandoned mines; Mercury; Methylmercury; Water quality

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; ISOTOPES; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY MINES; SEDIMENTS;

METHYLMERCURY; STORM-WATER RUNOFF;

WATERSHEDS;

BORON; CHLORIDE; HYDROGEN; LITHIUM; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; OXYGEN 18; RAIN; RUNOFF; STABLE ISOTOPE; STORM WATER; SULFATE;

ABANDONED MINE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; MINING; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; WASTE; WATERSHED; WINTER;

BORON; CALIFORNIA; CHLORIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROGEN; LITHIUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MINING; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; RAIN; RIVERS; SEASONS; SULFATES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2542571718     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.01.013     Document Type: Article

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