Normalisation as a tool for environmental impact studies: The Gulf of Gdansk as a case study

Baltica

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 49-62

  Ebbing, Jan ^a   Zachowicz, Joanna ^b   Uścinowicz, Szymon ^b   Laban, Cees ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b POLISH GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aluminium; Background values; Baltic Sea; Enrichment factor; Environmental study; Gulf of Gdansk.; Heavy metals; Inventory study; Normalisation; Sedimentology

Indexed keywords

EID: 4744370795     PISSN: 00673064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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