Total and leachable heavy metals in muddy and sandy sediments of Egyptian coast along Mediterranean Sea

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 129, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 151-168

  El Nemr, Ahmed Moustafa ^a   El Sikaily, Amany ^a   Khaled, Azza ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Leachable; Mediterranean; Mud; Pollution assessment; Sand; Surficial sediment

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION METHODS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; HEAVY METALS; SEDIMENTS;

POLLUTION ASSESSMENT; SPEARMAN CORRELATION; SUPERFICIAL SEDIMENT;

MARINE POLLUTION;

ACETYLENE; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; DEUTERIUM; HEAVY METAL; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; ZINC;

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; HEAVY METAL; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LEACHING; MARINE POLLUTION; OIL FIELD; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EGYPT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LEACHING; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OIL INDUSTRY; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; WATER SAMPLING;

EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METALS, HEAVY;

AFRICA; EGYPT; MEDITERRANEAN COAST [EGYPT]; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 34547092966     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-9349-8     Document Type: Article

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