Response to the letter to the editor by Andrew Millard [2]

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 354, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 298-302

  Martinez Garcia M J ^a   Moreno, J M ^a   Moreno Clavel, J ^a   Vergara, N ^a   Garcia Sanchez A ^a   Guillamon A ^a   Porti M ^b   Moreno Grau, S ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^b Archaeological Museum of Cartagena   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bone; Diagenesis; Heavy metals; Toxicokinetics

Indexed keywords

TOXICOLOGY;

BLOOD; BONE TISSUE; CIRCULATION; DIAGENESIS; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

EID: 29944447153     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.11.011     Document Type: Letter

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