Geochemical fractionation of trace elements in sediments of Hugli River (Ganges) and Sundarban wetland (West Bengal, India)

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 7561-7577

  Massolo, Serena ^a   Bignasca, Antonello ^a   Sarkar, Santosh Kumar ^b   Chatterjee, Mousumi ^b   Deb Bhattacharya, Bhaskar ^b   Alam, Aftab ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Hugli estuary; Sediment; Sediment Quality Guidelines; Selective extractions; Sundarban

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND LEVEL; BENTHIC COMMUNITIES; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; EUROPEAN COMMUNITY; GEOCHEMICAL PHASIS; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; MICROWAVE-ASSISTED ACID DIGESTION; MOBILITY ORDER; RESIDUAL FRACTION; SEDIMENT QUALITY GUIDELINES; SELECTIVE EXTRACTION; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION PROCEDURE; SUNDARBAN; THREE-STEP SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION; TOXIC EFFECT; WEST BENGAL , INDIA;

ALUMINUM; CADMIUM; CHEMICAL SPECIATION; CHROMIUM; COPPER; GEOCHEMISTRY; HEAVY METALS; LEAD; MANGANESE; PLANTS (BOTANY); POSITIVE IONS; RIVER POLLUTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; WETLANDS; ZINC;

POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ELEMENT MOBILITY; FRACTIONATION; GUIDELINE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MANGROVE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TRACE ELEMENT; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; ESTUARY; FRACTIONATION; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; INDIA; MANGROVE; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WETLAND;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INDIA; RIVERS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

HOOGHLY ESTUARY; INDIA; SUNDARBANS; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 84871849158     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2519-y     Document Type: Article

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