Observations of mercury fate and transport beneath a sediment cap

Land Contamination and Reclamation

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 401-411

  Liu, Jianrong ^a   Reible, Danny D ^b   Valsaraj, Kalliat ^a   Devai, Istvan ^a   Delaune, Ronald D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Capping remediation; Mercury contaminated sediment; Mercury transport; Methylation

Indexed keywords

CAPPING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLATION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEEPAGE;

EID: 37549047177     PISSN: 09670513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2462/09670513.881     Document Type: Article

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