Mercury transformations in marine coastal sediments as derived from mercury concentration and speciation changes along source/sink transport pathway (Southern Baltic)

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 72, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 370-378

  Bełdowski, Jacek ^a   Pempkowiak, Janusz ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; chemical speciation; mercury; pollution dispersion; release mechanisms; river discharge

Indexed keywords

COASTAL SEDIMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MERCURY (ELEMENT); NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SURFICIAL SEDIMENT; TRANSFORMATION;

ARKONA BASIN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BORNHOLM BASIN; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GDANSK BASIN; ODER RIVER; POLAND; VISTULA RIVER;

EID: 33847043913     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2006.10.007     Document Type: Article

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