Distinguishing regional and local sources of pollution by trace metals and magnetic particles in fluvial sediments of the Morava River, Czech Republic

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 460-473

  Novakova, Tereza ^a   Grygar, Tomas Matys ^b   Babek, Ondrej ^c   Famera, Martin ^c   Mihaljevic, Martin ^a   Strnad, Ladislav ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^c PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Enrichment factors; Fluvial sediments; Heavy metals; Local sources; Normalisation; Regional contamination

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CESIUM ISOTOPE; COPPER; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LEAD ISOTOPE; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MOBILITY; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RIVER BANK; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE; ZINC;

CZECH REPUBLIC; MORAVA RIVER; MORAVIA;

EID: 84872872581     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: 16147480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-012-0632-8     Document Type: Article

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