Dissolved matter and suspended solids in the Smolník Creek polluted by acid mine drainage (Slovakia)

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 311-324

  Lintnerová, Otília ^a   Šottník, Peter ^a   Šoltés, Stanislav ^a  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Catchment; Iron oxyhydroxides; Pollution; Precipitates

Indexed keywords

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; CATCHMENT; DISSOLVED MATTER; IRON HYDROXIDE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER POLLUTION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HNILEC RIVER; KOSICKY; SLOVAKIA; SMOLNIK CREEK;

EID: 33748295629     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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