Assessment of trace metals pollution in estuarine sediments using SEM-AVS and ERM-ERL predictions

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 181, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 385-397

  Garcia, Carlos Alexandre Borges ^a   De Andrade Passos, Elisangela ^a   Alves, José Do Patrocínio Hora ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ERL ERM; Estuarine sediments; Sediment quality guidelines; SEM AVS; Trace metals

Indexed keywords

ERL-ERM; ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENT QUALITY GUIDELINES; SEM-AVS; TRACE METALS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; EFFLUENTS; ESTUARIES; METALS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEWAGE; TRACE ELEMENTS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ACID VOLATILE SULFIDE; ALUMINUM; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; SULFIDE; TRACE METAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC;

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; GUIDELINE; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TRACE METAL;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BRAZIL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC WASTE; EFFECT RANGE LOW; EFFECT RANGE MEAN; ESTUARY; GEOCHEMISTRY; METAL EXTRACTION; PREDICTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; SEDIMENT; SIMULTANEOUS METAL EXTRACTION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS, HEAVY; RIVERS; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

BRAZIL; SERGIPE; SERGIPE ESTUARY;

EID: 80054734734     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1836-2     Document Type: Article

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