Determination of heavy metal pollution in depth profile of marine sediment samples from the Strait of Malacca

Fresenius Environmental Bulletin

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1279-1287

  Saion, Elias Bin ^a   Wood, Ab Khalik H ^b   Sulaiman, Zainal Abidin ^a   Alzahrany, Awad A ^a,c   Elias, Md Suhaimi ^b   Wee, Boon Siong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b MALAYSIAN NUCLEAR AGENCY   (Malaysia)

^c King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology Energy Research Institute   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Heavy metal pollution; ICP MS; INAA; Marine sediment; Strait of Malacca

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STRAIT OF MALACCA;

EID: 35948994925     PISSN: 10184619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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