Chemical assessment of sediment along the coastal belt of Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, India, after the 2004 tsunami

Current Science

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 382-385

  Sujatha, C H ^a   Aneeshkumar, N ^a   Renjith, K R ^a  

^a Department of Physics   (India)

Author keywords

Metal pollution; Nutrients; Shore sediments; Total organic carbon; Trace metals

Indexed keywords

EID: 49449095311     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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