Estuarine behaviour of metal loads leached from coastal lowland acid sulphate soils

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 378-393

  Nordmyr, Linda ^a   Österholm, Peter ^a   Åström, Mats ^b  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acid sulphate soils; Baltic Sea; Estuarine sediments; Metal load; Sediment trap material; V r River

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CHEMICAL SPECIATION; CHROMIUM; COPPER; ESTUARIES; EXTRACTION; IRON; LANTHANUM; LEACHING; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METALS; NICKEL; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOILS; ZINC;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; BOTTOM SEDIMENTS; CHEMICAL EXTRACTIONS; ELSEVIER (CO); FINLAND; GEOCHEMICAL SPECIATION; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; ORGANIC MATTER (OM); RIVER SYSTEMS; SULPHATE;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; IRON; LANTHANUM; MANGANESE; METAL; NICKEL; SULFATE; TITANIUM; URANIUM; VANADIUM; ZINC;

ACID SULFATE SOIL; COASTAL ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; LEACHING; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; METAL; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

ACID SULFATE SOIL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESTUARY; EXTRACTION; FINLAND; GEOCHEMISTRY; LEACHING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PH MEASUREMENT; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEA LEVEL; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; SOIL; SOIL ACIDITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METALS; RIVERS; SOIL; SULFATES; WATER MOVEMENTS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; VORA RIVER;

EID: 48149110132     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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