Heavy metal sources and associated risk in response to rapid urbanization in surface sediments of Shantou Bay, South China

Advanced Materials Research

Volumn 518-523, Issue , 2012, Pages 977-981

  Qiao, Yongmin ^a   Yang, Yang ^a   Liu, Zhenqian ^a   Tao, Ran ^a  

^a JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Distribution pattern; Enrichment and accumulation; Heavy metal; Sediment; Shantou Bay

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; GEO-ACCUMULATION INDEX; GEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; GRAIN SIZE; HEAVY METAL CONCENTRATION; HOTSPOTS; HYDRODYNAMIC CONDITIONS; MAJOR FACTORS; METAL SOURCES; REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION; RIVER INPUT; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SELECTED METALS; SEWAGE DISCHARGES; SHANTOU BAY; SOUTH CHINA; SURFACE SEDIMENTS;

GEOCHEMISTRY; HEAVY METALS; LEAD; MANGANESE; POLLUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SEWAGE; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS; ZINC;

RIVER POLLUTION;

EID: 84861667143     PISSN: 10226680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.518-523.977     Document Type: Conference Paper

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