Mercury geochemistry of the Scioto River, Ohio: Impact of agriculture and urbanization

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1880-1888

  Lyons, W Berry ^a,b   Fitzgibbon, Timothy O ^a   Welch, Kathleen A ^a   Carey, Anne E ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GEOCHEMISTRY; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; WATER; WATERSHEDS;

AGRICULTURE-DOMINATED PART; CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS; SCIOTO RIVER;

MERCURY (METAL);

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DATA SET; GEOCHEMISTRY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); TRIBUTARY; URBANIZATION; WATERSHED;

AGRICULTURE; MERCURY; WATER SHEDS;

NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; OHIO RIVER; SCIOTO RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750303506     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2006.08.005     Document Type: Article

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