Current-use pesticides and organochlorine compounds in precipitation and lake sediment from two high-elevation national parks in the Western United States

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 294-305

  Mast, M A ^a   Foreman, W T ^a   Skaates, S V ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBARIL; CHLOROTHALONIL; DACTHAL; ENDOSULFAN; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; PESTICIDE;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BENTHOS; DDD; DDE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; NATIONAL PARK; ORGANOCHLORINE; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BENTHOS; BIOTA; DEGRADATION; LAKE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SUMMER; UNITED STATES;

ALTITUDE; COLORADO; ENDOSULFAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; MONTANA; NITRILES; PESTICIDES; PHTHALIC ACIDS; RAIN; SNOW;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947522218     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-006-0096-1     Document Type: Article

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