Geomorphic controls on mercury accumulation in soils from a historically mined watershed, Central California Coast Range, USA

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1538-1548

  Holloway, JoAnn M ^a   Goldhaber, Martin B ^a   Morrison, Jean M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL SOIL; AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; CALIFORNIA; CONCENTRATION OF; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; FLOOD-PLAINS; FLOODPLAIN SEDIMENTS; GEOMORPHIC CONTROLS; HG CONCENTRATIONS; HG MINING; HOST ROCKS; MERCURY ACCUMULATION; MINING ACTIVITIES; MINING AREAS; PARENT MATERIALS; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; SERPENTINITE; SOIL CONCENTRATIONS; STORM EVENTS; UPLAND SOIL;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CATCHMENTS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY DEPOSITS; MINE TRANSPORTATION; MINING; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SERPENTINE; SILICATE MINERALS; SOILS; SULFUR; WATERSHEDS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ACCUMULATION; COASTAL ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DELTA; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINING; PEDOGENESIS; SERPENTINITE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATERSHED;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67651180558     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2009.04.020     Document Type: Article

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