An assessment of mercury loading in core sediments of Sunderban mangrove wetland, India (a preliminary report)

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 105-112

  Kwokal, Z ^a   Sarkar, S K ^b   Chatterjee, M ^b   Franciskovis Bilinski, S ^a   Bilinski, H ^a   Bhattacharya, A ^b   Bhattacharya, B D ^b   Alam, Md Aftab ^b  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

Estuarine sediments; Marine sediments; Mercury anomalies; Statistical analysis; Texture class; Total mercury

Indexed keywords

CORE SEDIMENTS; MERCURY(III); TOTAL MERCURY (THG);

SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; INDIA; MANGROVE; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; PH MEASUREMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; WETLAND;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDIA; MERCURY; PLANTS; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SEASONS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

EID: 46249114369     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: 14320800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-008-9443-4     Document Type: Article

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