Calculation of the mercury accumulation in the Idrijca River alluvial plain sediments

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 368, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 291-297

  Žibret, Gorazd ^a   Gosar, Mateja ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Alluvial plain; Floodplain; Idrija mercury mine; Idrijca River; Mercury accumulation; Mercury contamination; Mining; Slovenia

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; FLOODS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; SMELTING;

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; FLOODPLAIN; IDRIJA MERCURY MINE; IDRIJCA RIVER; MERCURY ACCUMULATION; MERCURY CONTAMINATION; SLOVENIA;

MERCURY MINES;

MERCURY;

ACCUMULATION; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ALLUVIAL PLAIN; HOLOCENE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINE WASTE; RIVER POLLUTION; SMELTING; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL WASTE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; HOLOCENE; METHODOLOGY; MINING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MERCURY; METALLURGY; MINING; RIVERS; SLOVENIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IDRIJA; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33746620069     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.09.086     Document Type: Article

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