Lead, zinc, arsenic and copper pollution in the alluvial plain of a mining wadi: The beal case (Cartagena-La Union Mining District, SE Spain)

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 220, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 279-291

  Gonzalez Fernandez, Oscar ^a   Queralt, Ignacio ^a   Carvalho, Maria Luisa ^b   Garcia, Gregorio ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cartagena La Union; DIN38414 S4; Ditrichia viscosa; Heavy metals; Hirsfeldia incana; Piptatherum miliaceum; Wadi

Indexed keywords

CARTAGENA-LA UNION; DIN38414-S4; DITRICHIA VISCOSA; HIRSFELDIA INCANA; PIPTATHERUM MILIACEUM; WADI;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ARSENIC; LEACHING; LEAD; METALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC;

COPPER;

ARSENIC; COPPER; LEAD; ZINC;

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; LEACHING; LEAD; MINING; SOIL CHEMISTRY; ZINC;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; EUROPEAN UNION; LEACHING; MINERALOGY; MINING; PARTICLE SIZE; PH; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SPAIN; WATERSHED; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

LA UNION [MURCIA]; MURCIA [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

HIRSCHFELDIA INCANA; PIPTATHERUM MILIACEUM;

EID: 80052303105     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-011-0753-5     Document Type: Article

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