Rare earth elements as tracers of sediment contamination by phosphogypsum in the Santos estuary, southern Brazil

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 837-850

  de Oliveira, Sonia Maria Barros ^a   da Silva, Paulo Sergio Cardoso ^b   Mazzilli, Barbara Paci ^b   Favaro, Deborah Ines Teixeira ^b   Saueia, Catia Heloisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; ESTUARIES; FERTILIZERS; GYPSUM; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS;

PHOSPHOGYPSUM; PHOSPHOGYPSUM WASTES; SEDIMENT CONTAMINATION;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

DRAINAGE NETWORK; EFFLUENT; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; FRACTIONATION; GYPSUM; PHOSPHATE (INORGANIC); RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT; TRACER;

CALCIUM SULFATE; FERTILIZERS; FRACTIONATION; POLLUTION; SEDIMENTS;

BRAZIL; CUBATAO; MOGI RIVER; SANTOS ESTUARY; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; SERRA DO MAR; SOUTH AMERICA;

PHOSPHOGYPSUM;

EID: 33947401848     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2006.12.017     Document Type: Article

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