Heavy-metal pollution of sediments from the Polish exclusive economic zone, southern Baltic Sea

Environmental Geology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 847-862

  Szefer, P ^a   Glasby, G P ^b   Geldon, J ^a   Renner, R M ^c   Bjorn E ^d   Snell, J ^d   Frech, W ^d   Warzocha, J ^e  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Metalloids pollution; Polish EEZ; Sediments

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METALS; METALLOIDS; METALS; MOLYBDENUM; POLLUTION; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; RIVER CONTROL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

ANOXIC BASINS; BALTIC SEAS; EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONES; HEAVY-METAL POLLUTIONS; MUDDY SEDIMENTS; ODER ESTUARIES; ODER RIVERS; ORGANIC COLLOIDS; POLISH EEZ; PRINCIPAL FACTORS; SURFACE SEDIMENTS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

HEAVY METAL; LAGOON; MARINE SEDIMENT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BORNHOLM BASIN; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND; POMERANIAN BAY; SLUPSK FURROW; SZCZECIN LAGOON; ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE;

EID: 62549163859     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-008-1364-3     Document Type: Article

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