Natural and anthropogenic geochemical signatures of floodplain and deltaic sedimentary strata, Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta, California, USA

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 295-309

  Pasternack, G B ^a   Brown, K J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Deltas; Metal accumulation; Sedimentation; Trace metals; Wetland restoration

Indexed keywords

DELTAS; METAL ACCUMULATION; TRACE METALS; WETLAND RESTORATION;

FLOODS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; WETLANDS;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

ARSENIC; COPPER; LEAD; MERCURY; ZINC;

FLOODPLAIN; GEOCHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; FLOODPLAIN; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SEDIMENT; STRATIGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

ARSENIC; CALIFORNIA; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LEAD; MERCURY; METALS, HEAVY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZINC;

EID: 33645137166     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2005.08.044     Document Type: Article

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