Effect of municipal wastewaters on bottom sediment geochemistry and benthic foraminifera of two Red Sea coastal inlets, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 451-469

  Abu Zied, Ramadan H ^a,b   Basaham, Ali S ^a   El Sayed, Mohamed A ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Mansoura University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Diversity; Heavy metals; LOI; Oxidizing; Pollution; Reducing

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CALCITE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CHROMIUM; HEAVY METALS; POLLUTION; SEDIMENTS;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; DIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; JEDDAH , SAUDI ARABIA; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; OXIDIZING; REDUCING;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BOTTOM WATER; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEAVY METAL; MUD; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIONT; TIDAL INLET; WATER DEPTH;

INDIAN OCEAN; JEDDAH; MAKKAH [SAUDI ARABIA]; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; SAUDI ARABIA;

AMMONIA (FORAMINIFERAN); AMMONIA TEPIDA; COSCINOSPIRA HEMPRICHII; FORAMINIFERA; PENEROPLIS PLANATUS; QUINQUELOCULINA SEMINULA;

EID: 84872031205     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1751-7     Document Type: Article

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