Transport and fate of mercury under different hydrologie regimes in polluted stream in mining area

Journal of Environmental Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 757-764

  Lin, Yan ^a   Larssen, Thorjørn ^a,b   Vogt, Rolf D ^a   Feng, Xinbin ^c   Zhang, Hua ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Fractionation and speciation; Hydrology; Mercury; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND LEVEL; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; DOWNSTREAM AREAS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; FLOW REGIMES; GUIZHOU PROVINCE; HG MINES; HG MINING; HG POLLUTION; HIGH CONCENTRATION; MINE WASTES; MINING AREAS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENTATION OF PARTICLES; SPECIATION CALCULATIONS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER SAMPLES;

ABANDONED MINES; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DISSOLUTION; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY MINES; SEEPAGE;

RIVER POLLUTION;

CARBON; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; HYDROLOGY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); RUNOFF; SEEPAGE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; FLOW KINETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MINING; MOTION; PH; RIVER; SOLUBILITY; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

CARBON; CHINA; GEOGRAPHY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MINING; MOTION; RHEOLOGY; RIVERS; SOLUBILITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION;

CHINA; GUIZHOU;

EID: 79958817269     PISSN: 10010742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1001-0742(10)60473-1     Document Type: Article

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