Mercury distribution and speciation in soils affected by historic mercury mining

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 200, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 89-99

  Hojdová, Maria ^a,b   Navrátil, Tomáš ^a   Rohovec, Jan ^a   Penížek, Vít ^c   Grygar, Tomáš ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Contamination; Czech Republic; Forest soil; Mercury speciation; Mining; Thermo desorption analysis

Indexed keywords

CZECH REPUBLIC; DESORPTION ANALYSIS; FINE PARTICLES; FOREST SOIL; HG CONCENTRATIONS; HG MINING; HIGH IMPACT; IMPACT SITE; MERCURY DISTRIBUTION; MERCURY SPECIATION; MERCURY SPECIATIONS; MINERAL HORIZON; MINERAL PARTICLES; MINERAL SOILS; MINERAL SURFACES; MINING ACTIVITIES; MINING AREAS; OXYHYDROXIDES; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL PROFILES; THERMO-DESORPTION ANALYSIS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

CLAY MINERALS; CONTAMINATION; DESORPTION; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MINE SHAFTS; MINERALS; MINING; SILICATE MINERALS; SOILS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

IRON; MERCURY; MERCURY SULFIDE;

ADSORPTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ELEMENT MOBILITY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINING; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; CLAY; CZECH REPUBLIC; DESORPTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MINING; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL PROPERTY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 67349249194     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-008-9895-5     Document Type: Article

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