Gulf of Bothnia receives high concentrations of potentially toxic metals from acid sulphate soils

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 383-388

  Roos, Marcus ^a   Åström, Mats ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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