Sediment-water exchange of total mercury and monomethyl mercury in the San Francisco Bay-Delta

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1512-1527

  Choe, Key Young ^a   Gill, Gary A ^a   Lehman, Ronald D ^a   Han, Seunghee ^a   Heim, Wesley A ^b   Coale, Kenneth H ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4944226236     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.5.1512     Document Type: Article

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