Mercury in bottom sediments of the Amur River, its flood-plain lakes and estuary, Eastern Siberia

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 168, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 133-140

  Kot, Fyodor S ^a,c   Bakanov, Konstantin G ^a   Goryachev, Nikolay A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^b Ministry for Primary Industries   (New Zealand)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amur River; Bottom sediments; Contamination; Economic stagnation; Estuary; Lake; Mercury; River

Indexed keywords

AMUR RIVER; ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; ANTHROPOGENIC PRESSURES; BOTTOM SEDIMENTS; EASTERN SIBERIA; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC STAGNATION; ESTUARINE WATERS; HG CONCENTRATIONS; LEVELS AND FATE; PRISTINE LEVELS; RUSSIAN ECONOMY; SEA OF OKHOTSK; SEDIMENT DEPTH; WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES;

ECONOMICS; ESTUARIES; LAKE POLLUTION; LAKES; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY DEPOSITS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

RIVER POLLUTION;

MERCURY; MERCURY SULFIDE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ESTUARY; LAKE; RIVER; RIVER BASIN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEDIMENT; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MERCURY; RIVERS; SIBERIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION;

AMUR RIVER; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK; SIBERIA;

EID: 77955432066     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-1097-0     Document Type: Article

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