Steroid hormone runoff from agricultural test plots applied with municipal biosolids

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2746-2754

  Yang, Yun Ya ^a   Gray, James L ^b   Furlong, Edward T ^b   Davis, Jessica G ^a   Revello, Rhiannon C ^b   Borch, Thomas ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; ANTECEDENT RAINFALL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MASS LOAD; POINT OF APPLICATION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PRESSURIZED SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SOLID SAMPLES; SOLID-PHASE EXTRACTION; STEROID HORMONE; TARGET COMPOUND; WATER SAMPLES;

AGRICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOSOLIDS; DEGRADATION; ENDOCRINOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RAIN; SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF;

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CHOLESTEROL; ESTROGEN; ESTRONE; GESTAGEN; RAIN; RUNOFF; STEROID HORMONE;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; BIOSOLID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; HORMONE; MOBILIZATION; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; STEROID; STEROL;

AGRICULTURAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIOSOLID; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AGRICULTURE; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CITIES; ENVIRONMENT; HORMONES; PARTICULATE MATTER; RAIN; SEWAGE; STEROIDS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84863258440     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es203896t     Document Type: Article

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