River system recovery following the Novaţ-Roşu tailings dam failure, Maramureş County, Romania

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3498-3518

  Bird, Graham ^a   Brewer, Paul A ^a   Macklin, Mark G ^a   Balteanu, Dan ^b   Serban, Mihaela ^b   Driga, Basarab ^b   Zaharia, Sorin ^c  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^c ARIS Design Institute   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DISASTERS; EMBANKMENT DAMS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); LAKES; METALS; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; TAILINGS;

CLEAN-UP OPERATIONS; CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT; CONTAMINATED WATER; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; MINING ACTIVITIES; REMOBILIZATION; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION PROCEDURE;

RIVER POLLUTION;

CATCHMENT; CLEANUP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAM FAILURE; EUROPEAN UNION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LEAD ISOTOPE; MINING; REMOBILIZATION; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER SYSTEM; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TAILINGS DAM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MARAMURES; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 56749185595     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2008.08.010     Document Type: Article

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