Mercury empirical relationships in sediments from three Ontario lakes

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2087-2095

  Ethier, A L M ^a   Scheuhammer, A M ^b   Blais, J M ^a   Paterson, A M ^c   Mierle, G ^c   Ingram, R ^c   Lean, D R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lake; Mercury; Organic carbon; Redox potential; Sediment; Sediment bulk density

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; MERCURY; METHYL MERCURY; ONTARIO; ONTARIO , CANADA; REDOX POTENTIAL; REDOX POTENTIALS; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT DEPTH; SEDIMENT PROPERTIES; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT; TOTAL MERCURIES; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

LAKES; MERCURY (METAL); ORGANIC CARBON; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

LAKE POLLUTION;

CARBON; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN;

BULK DENSITY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; ORGANIC CARBON; REDOX POTENTIAL; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT CORE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

ARTICLE; BULK DENSITY; CANADA; CAPILLARY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; LAKE; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATIFICATION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; ONTARIO; WATER MOVEMENTS;

BLUE CHALK LAKE; CANADA; CANADIAN SHIELD; DICKIE LAKE; DORSET [ONTARIO]; HARP LAKE; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 77649341025     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.12.037     Document Type: Article

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