Determining metal origins and availability in fluvial deposits by analysis of geochemical baselines and solid-solution partitioning measurements and modelling

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 832-839

  Vijver, Martina G ^a,b   Spijker, Job ^a   Vink, Jos P M ^c   Posthuma, Leo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lithogenic background concentration; Metals; Model comparison; Partitioning; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; AVAILABILITY; BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); COPPER; FORECASTING; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; LEAD DEPOSITS; METAL RECOVERY; METAL REFINING; METALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; RIVERS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; SOLID SOLUTIONS; WATER MANAGEMENT; ZINC;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; BACKGROUND CONCENTRATIONS; BASE-LINES; EMPIRICAL REGRESSION MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENTS; EXPOSURE LEVELS; FLOODPLAIN DEPOSITS; FLOODPLAIN SOILS; FLUVIAL DEPOSITS; IN FIELDS; KINETIC MODELS; LITHOGENIC; LITHOGENIC BACKGROUND CONCENTRATION; METAL PARTITIONING; MODEL COMPARISON; PARTITIONING; PROBLEM DEFINITIONS; RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENTS; SOLUTION PHASES;

EXTRACTION;

CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; ZINC;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHEMISTRY; KINETICS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METAL; MODELING; PARTITIONING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; METAL EXTRACTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

CADMIUM; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LEAD; METALS, HEAVY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NETHERLANDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; ZINC;

EID: 55649095735     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.05.028     Document Type: Article

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