Distribution of heavy metals in the dissolved and suspended phase of the sea-surface microlayer, seawater column and in sediments of Singapore's coastal environment

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 138, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 255-272

  Cuong, Dang The ^a   Karuppiah, Subramanian ^a   Obbard, Jeffrey Philip ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Sea surface microlayer; Seawater; Sediments; Southeast Asia; Suspended particulate matter

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METALS; MARINE BIOLOGY; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SEAWATER; SEDIMENTS;

MARINE BIOLOGICAL CYCLE; SEA-SURFACE MICROLAYER; SEAWATER COLUMN; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER (SPM);

COASTAL ZONES;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; NICKEL; SEA WATER; SURFACE WATER; ZINC;

BOTTOM WATER; COASTAL ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HEAVY METAL; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROLAYER; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

ARTICLE; CHINA; COASTAL WATERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTUARY; GREECE; JAPAN; KOREA; MALAYSIA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; SEA; SEDIMENT; SINGAPORE; SPAIN; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; THAILAND; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS, HEAVY; SEAWATER; SINGAPORE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ADRIATIC SEA; ASIA; BENELUX; CHINA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; KOREA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NETHERLANDS; RHINE-MEUSE DELTA; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; THAILAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 39049131492     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-9795-y     Document Type: Article

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