Mercury speciation and transport via submarine groundwater discharge at a southern California coastal lagoon system

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1480-1488

  Ganguli, P M ^a   Conaway, C H ^a,b   Swarzenski, P W ^b   Izbicki, J A ^b   Flegal, A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FLUXES; CALIFORNIA; COASTAL GROUNDWATER; COASTAL LAGOONS; COASTAL WATERS; GROUND WATER DISCHARGE; MERCURY SPECIATIONS; MERCURY SPECIES; MONOMETHYLMERCURY; NEARSHORES; SEAWATER CONCENTRATION; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE; TEMPERATURE TRENDS; TIDAL CONDITIONS; TIDAL CYCLE; TOTAL MERCURIES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); GROUNDWATER; MERCURY (METAL);

SEAWATER;

GROUND WATER; MERCURY; MONOMETHYLMERCURY; SEA WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BENTHIC FLUX; BIOACCUMULATION; COASTAL LAGOON; COASTAL WATER; DISCHARGE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER-SEAWATER INTERACTION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADON ISOTOPE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SOLUBILIZATION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TIDAL CYCLE;

ARTICLE; EBB TIDE; LAGOON; SALINITY; SEA; SEA POLLUTION; TEMPERATURE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION;

CALIFORNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; RADON; SALINITY; SEAWATER; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TEMPERATURE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

CALIFORNIA; MALIBU; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856727997     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202783u     Document Type: Article

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