Heavy metal pollution in surface sediment and mussel samples in the Gulf of Gemlik

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 144, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 169-178

  Ünlü, Selma ^a   Topçuoǧlu, Sayhan ^b   Alpar, Bedri ^a   Kirbaşoǧlu, Çliǧem ^b   Yilmaz, Yusuf Ziya ^b  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Cekmece Nuclear Research and Training Center   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bottom sediments; Grain size; Heavy metals; Mussels; Mytilus galloprovincialis; Pollution

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METALS; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METALS; NICKEL; NICKEL ALLOYS; PORTS AND HARBORS; QUALITY CONTROL; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; ZINC;

BOTTOM SEDIMENTS; GRAIN SIZE; HEAVY METAL POLLUTION; MUSSELS; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS;

POLLUTION;

CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; ZINC;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; GRAIN SIZE; HEAVY METAL; MOLLUSC; POLLUTION EFFECT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; RIVER; SEA POLLUTION; SEA SURFACE WATERS; SEDIMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METALS, HEAVY; SEAWATER; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TURKEY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EURASIA; GULF OF GEMLIK; SEA OF MARMARA; TURKEY;

MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS;

EID: 51649107571     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-9986-6     Document Type: Article

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