Post-depositional memory record of mercury in sediment near the effluent disposal site of a chlor-alkali plant in Thane Creek-Mumbai Harbour, India

Environmental Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 765-783

  Ram, Anirudh ^a   Rokade, M A ^a   Zingde, M D ^a   Borole, D V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

anthropogenic deposition; deposition rate; enrichment factor; lithogenic concentration; mercury

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CATCHMENTS; CELL MEMBRANES; COASTAL ZONES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEPOSITION RATES; EFFLUENTS; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC CARBON; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ANTHROPOGENIC DEPOSITION; ARABIAN SEA; BACKGROUND VALUE; CATCHMENT AREA; CHLOR-ALKALI INDUSTRY; CHLOR-ALKALI PLANTS; COASTAL AREA; COASTAL REGIONS; CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT; CURRENT-DRIVEN; EFFLUENT DISPOSAL; ENRICHMENT FACTOR; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HISTORICAL RECORDS; LITHOGENIC CONCENTRATION; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MARINE SEDIMENTS; MEMBRANE CELLS; MERCURY; NATURAL BACKGROUNDS; RE-SUSPENSION; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; SUSPENDED LOADS; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; UNTREATED WASTEWATER;

MERCURY (METAL);

ALKALI; ALUMINUM; CHLORINE; IRON; MERCURY;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITION; EFFLUENT; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MEMORY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); SEDIMENT CORE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ANTHROPOGENIC DEPOSITION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; EFFLUENT; ESTUARY; INDIA; POLLUTION; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SAMPLING; SEASHORE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; MAHARASHTRA; MUMBAI; SOUTH ASIA; THANE CREEK;

EID: 67651146516     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330902990063     Document Type: Article

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