Mercury contaminations from historic mining to water, soil and vegetation in Lanmuchang, Guizhou, southwestern China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 368, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 56-68

  Qiu, Guangle ^a,b   Feng, Xinbin ^a   Wang, Shaofeng ^a,b   Xiao, Tangfu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Mercury; Methylmercury; Mining; Soil; Stream; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MINING; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; VEGETATION; WATER POLLUTION;

METHYLMERCURY; PARTICULATE HG; STREAM; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS (TSS);

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; WATER;

METHYLMERCURY; MINING; SOIL POLLUTION; STREAM; VEGETATION; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; FLOODING; MINING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SEASON; SOIL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOIL POLLUTION; SUMMER; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; VEGETATION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

BRASSICA; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FERNS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; LICHENS; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MINING; RIVERS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TRITICUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZEA MAYS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUIZHOU;

EID: 33746621307     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.09.030     Document Type: Article

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