Stable lead isotope ratios and metals in freshwater mussels from a uranium mining environment in Australia's wet-dry tropics

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 171-185

  Bollhöfer, Andreas ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE SUPERVISING SCIENTIST   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BROKEN HILLS; FRESHWATER MUSSELS; ISOTOPE RATIO; METABOLIC RATES; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; METAL UPTAKE; MINE SITE; MINERALISATION; MINING ENVIRONMENTS; PB CONCENTRATION; PB ISOTOPES; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; STABLE LEAD ISOTOPES; URANIUM MINING; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CATCHMENTS; COPPER; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MANGANESE; MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); METALS; POLLUTION; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHELLFISH; URANIUM;

RIVERS;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIVALVE; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LEAD ISOTOPE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAL; MINE WASTE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATERWAY TRANSPORT;

AUSTRALIA;

ALLIGATOR; VELESUNIO ANGASI;

EID: 84855428346     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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