Assessment of the pollutants in farming soils and waters around untreated abandoned Türkönü mercury mine (Turkey)

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-24

  Gemici, Ünsal ^a   Tarcan, Gültekin ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMICAL DISPERSAL; MERCURY PRODUCTION;

DRAINAGE; IRRIGATION; MERCURY (METAL); TOXIC MATERIALS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

MERCURY;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MINING; POLLUTION MONITORING; SOIL POLLUTION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WATER POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURE; ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METALS, HEAVY; MINING; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TURKEY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 34548119504     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: 14320800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-007-9087-9     Document Type: Article

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