Chemical and physical speciation of mercury in Offatts Bayou: A seasonally anoxic bayou in Galveston Bay

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1380-1392

  Han, Seunghee ^a,b   Lehman, Ronald D ^a   Choe, Key Young ^a,c   Gill, Gary A ^a,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BOTTOM WATER; COMPLEXATION; DISSOLVED INORGANIC MATTER; ESTUARY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); STRATIFICATION; WATER COLUMN;

GALVESTON BAY; GALVESTON ISLAND; NORTH AMERICA; OFFATTS BAYOU; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547162832     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.4.1380     Document Type: Article

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