Environmental analysis of heavy metal deposition in a flow-restricted tropical estuary and its adjacent shelf

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 345-351

  Balachandran, K K ^a   Laluraj, C M ^b   Martin, G D ^a   Srinivas, K ^a   Venugopal, P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b NATIONAL CENTRE FOR ANTARCTIC AND OCEAN RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Cochin Estuary; Coprecipitation; Deposition; Heavy metals; Multivariate statistical analyses; Organic and inorganic association

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845506030     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275920600996339     Document Type: Article

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