Geochemistry of bed and suspended sediment in the Mississippi river system: Provenance versus weathering and winnowing

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 362, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 179-204

  Piper, D Z ^a   Ludington, Steve ^a   Duval, J S ^a   Taylor, H E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Mississippi River Basin; Pollutants; Stream sediment; Weathering

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; GEOCHEMISTRY; QUARTZ; SILICATES; TRACE ELEMENTS; WEATHERING;

AMORPHOUS OXYHYDRIDE; MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN; STREAM SEDIMENT;

SEDIMENTS;

TRACE ELEMENT; HEAVY METAL; LANTHANIDE; OXIDE;

FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHEMISTRY; MINERAL; RIVER BASIN; RIVER BED; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WEATHERING;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISSOLUTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FRACTIONATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; MINERALOGY; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER BASIN; STEADY STATE; UNITED STATES; WEATHERING; CHEMISTRY; RIVER; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS, HEAVY; METALS, RARE EARTH; OXIDES; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 33746388938     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.05.041     Document Type: Article

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