Distribution of potentially toxic elements in sediments of an industrialized coastal zone of the Northern Aegean Sea

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 282-292

  Papastergios, Georgios ^a   Filippidis, Anestis ^a   Fernandez Turiel, Jose Luis ^b   Gimeno, Domingo ^c   Sikalidis, Constadinos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environment; Geochemistry; Greece; Kavala; Potentially toxic elements; Sea sediment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956793842     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275922.2010.494992     Document Type: Article

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