Mercury accumulation and attenuation at a rapidly forming delta with a point source of mining waste

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 5056-5070

  Johnson, Bryce E ^a   Esser, Bradley K ^b   Whyte, Dyan C ^c   Ganguli, Priya M ^c   Austin, Carrie M ^c   Hunt, James R ^a  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c California Regional Water Quality Control Board   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Biota; Contaminant accumulation; Mercury; Methylmercury; Natural attenuation; Sediments; Tomales Bay

Indexed keywords

BIOTA; CONTAMINANT ACCUMULATION; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; NATURAL ATTENUATION; TOMALES BAY;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CESIUM; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DAMS; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MERCURY MINES; MINING; RANGE FINDING; RIVER POLLUTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

MERCURY (METAL);

CESIUM 137; MERCURY;

ACCUMULATION RATE; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOTA; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LOADING; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINE WASTE; NATURAL ATTENUATION; POINT SOURCE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TAILINGS DAM; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MARSH; MINE TAILINGS; MINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MERCURY; MINING; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; TOMALES BAY; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE;

EID: 67650979218     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.05.025     Document Type: Article

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