Quantification of fossil organic matter in contaminated sediments from an industrial watershed: Validation of the quantitative multimolecular approach by radiocarbon analysis

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 4251-4256

  Jeanneau, Laurent ^a   Faure, Pierre ^a  

^a CRPG CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Contamination; Fossil organic matter; Molecular markers; Quantitative Multimolecular Approach (QMA); Radiocarbon

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CATCHMENTS; CONTAMINATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTS;

EXTRACTABLE ORGANIC MATTER; FOSSIL ORGANIC MATTERS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR MARKER; ORGANIC CONTAMINATION; QUANTITATIVE MULTIMOLECULAR APPROACH (QMA); RADIOCARBON; SEDIMENTARY ORGANIC MATTER;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

CARBON 14; ORGANIC MATTER;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOMASS; CATCHMENT; CONFLUENCE; FOSSIL; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ORGANIC MATTER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SOLVENT; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CATCHMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOSSIL; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIVER; SCALE UP; SEDIMENT; URBANIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

FENSCH RIVER; FRANCE; LORRAINE; MOSELLE; MOSELLE RIVER;

EID: 77954623092     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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