Mercury mobilization in estuarine sediment porewaters: A diffusive gel time-series study

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 717-722

  Merritt, Karen A ^a   Amirbahman, Aria ^a  

^a University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSIVE MODELS; MASS FLUX; POREWATER LIGANDS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ESTUARIES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

MASS TRANSFER;

MERCURY; SILOXANE; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ESTUARIES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION; DIAGENESIS; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; GEL; LIGAND; MASS TRANSFER; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MOBILIZATION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; POREWATER; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ESTUARY; GEL; SEDIMENT; SOLID; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GELS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MERCURY; POROSITY; RIVERS; SEAWATER; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

MAINE; NORTH AMERICA; PENOBSCOT ESTUARY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846815335     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es061659t     Document Type: Article

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