Natural and anthropogenic effects on the sediment geochemistry of Nestos river, Northern Greece

Environmental Geology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1361-1370

  Papastergios, Georgios ^a   Fernández Turiel, Jose Luis ^b   Georgakopoulos, Andreas ^a   Gimeno, Domingo ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Greece; River Nestos; Sediments; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; ANALYTICAL METHOD; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS; CONTAMINATED LANDS; ELEMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS; ELEMENTAL CONTENTS; FINE SEDIMENTS; GREECE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; ICP-OES; NATURAL PROCESS; NESTOS RIVER; NORTHERN GREECE; RIVER SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENT LOADS; SEDIMENT SAMPLES;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CURRICULA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BUFFERING; CONTAMINATED LAND; DAM CONSTRUCTION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GUIDELINE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOBILIZATION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; TRACE ELEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MESTA RIVER; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349878933     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-008-1639-8     Document Type: Article

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