Extreme precipitation appears a key driver of mercury transport from the watershed to Cottage Grove Reservoir, Oregon

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 176, Issue , 2013, Pages 178-184

  Curtis, Lawrence R ^a   Morgans, Donna L ^a   Thoms, Bryn ^b   Villenueve, Daniel ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Oregon Department Environmental Quality   (United States)

Author keywords

Fish mercury contamination; Mercury transport; Pollution

Indexed keywords

BODY WEIGHT; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; LARGEMOUTH BASS; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; MERCURY CONTAMINATION; MERCURY DEPOSITIONS; MERCURY LOADINGS; MERCURY TRANSPORT; MERCURY VAPOR; MINE SITE; SEDIMENT CORE; SUBBASINS; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TOTAL MERCURIES;

CALCINATION; LOADING; POLLUTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RIVER POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTION; STRATIGRAPHY; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS; WATERSHEDS;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; BODY MASS; CONDENSATION; DEPOSITION; EXTREME EVENT; FISH; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TRIBUTARY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; LARGEMOUTH BASS; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRECIPITATION; SEDIMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; UNITED STATES; WATERSHED;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MERCURY; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MINING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OREGON; RAIN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874606748     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.01.028     Document Type: Article

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