Assessment of elemental distribution and trace element contamination in surficial wetland sediments, Southern Tibetan Plateau

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 177, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 301-313

  Zhang, Qianggong ^a   Kang, Shichang ^a,b   Li, Chaoliu ^a   Chen, Feng ^a   Boukalova, Zuzana ^c   Černý, Ivo ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research   (China)

^c VODNÍ ZDROJE Joint Stock Company ^*  (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Arsenic (As); Elemental concentration; Surficial sediment; Tibetan Plateau; Wetland

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTANTS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRUSTAL ELEMENTS; ELEMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS; ELEMENTAL DISTRIBUTION; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; HARMFUL EFFECTS; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MEASURE CONCENTRATION; SEDIMENT QUALITY; SURFACE SOIL; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIBETANS; WETLAND SEDIMENTS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ARSENIC; CESIUM; POLLUTION DETECTION; RATING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRONTIUM; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS; WETLANDS;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; BARIUM; CALCIUM; CESIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; EUROPIUM; IRON; LEAD; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; NICKEL; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; STRONTIUM; TIN; TITANIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; VANADIUM; YTTERBIUM; ZINC;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ARSENIC; CORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TRACE ELEMENT; WETLAND;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; CHINA; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DECOMPOSITION; PH; SEDIMENT; SOIL QUALITY; SURFACE SOIL; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VEGETATION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WETLAND;

ARSENIC; CESIUM; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79959770198     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1635-9     Document Type: Article

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