Mercury speciation in sediments at a municipal sewage sludge marine disposal site

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 601-615

  Shoham Frider, E ^a   Shelef, G ^b   Kress, N ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bioavailability; Eastern Mediterranean; Marine sediments; Mercury; Sewage sludge; Speciation

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXTRACTION; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTS; SEWAGE SLUDGE;

ACTIVATED SEWAGE SLUDGE (ASS); INORGANIC SULFIDE SPECIES; MARINE SEDIMENTS; MERCURY SPECIATION;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS;

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANOSULFUR DERIVATIVE; SULFIDE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOTURBATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLATION; POLYCHAETE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEWAGE; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ISRAEL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POLYCHAETA; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE DISPOSAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WATER POLLUTION;

CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEWAGE; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 35148901028     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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