Assessing the contents of arsenic and of some heavy metals in surface flows and in the hyporheic zone of the arieş stream catchment area, Romania

Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-24

  Marin, Constantin ^a   Tudorache, Alin ^a,b   Moldovan, Oana Teodora ^a   Povarǎ, Ioan ^c   Rajka, Géza ^a  

^a EMIL RACOVI INSTITUTE OF SPELEOLOGY   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c Department of Cluj Napoca ^*

Author keywords

Arie ; Atomic absorption spectrometry; Heavy metals; Hyporheic zone; Mining area; Surface water

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CATCHMENT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HEAVY METAL; HYPORHEIC ZONE; STREAMFLOW; SURFACE WATER;

EID: 77954167657     PISSN: 18424090     EISSN: 1844489X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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