Mechanisms of land-sea interactions - the distribution of metals and sedimentary organic matter in sediments of a river-dominated Mediterranean karstic estuary

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 12-20

  Sondi, Ivan ^a   Lojen, Sonja ^b   Juračić, Mladen ^c   Prohić, Esad ^c  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

clays; estuary; geochemistry; metals; sedimentary organic matter; sediments; stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CLAY; CLAY MINERAL; DECOMPOSITION; DEPOSITION; DISEQUILIBRIUM; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INFILL; INORGANIC MATTER; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; ORGANIC MATTER; PH; REAL TIME; RIVER; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 52149113315     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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