Arsenic in sediments from the southeastern Baltic Sea

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 855-861

  Garnaga, Galina ^a   Wyse, Eric ^b   Azemard, Sabine ^b   Stankevičius, Algirdas ^a   de Mora, Stephen ^b  

^a Centre of Marine Research   (Lithuania)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Baltic Sea; Chemical munitions; Iron; Lithuania; Sediment

Indexed keywords

BALTIC SEA; CHEMICAL MUNITIONS; CHEMICAL WEAPONS; LITHUANIA;

CHEMICAL WARFARE; IRON; MARINE ENGINEERING; ORDNANCE; SEDIMENTS;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; IRON;

ARSENIC; CHEMICAL WEAPON; DISPERSAL; LEAKAGE; MARINE POLLUTION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; LITHUANIA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT; WEAPON;

ARSENIC; CHEMICAL WARFARE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; NORTH SEA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BALTIC STATES; EURASIA; EUROPE; GOTLAND BASIN; LITHUANIA; NORTH SEA; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33748426302     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2006.02.013     Document Type: Article

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