Assessment of mercury erosion by surface water in Wanshan mercury mining area

Environmental Research

Volumn 125, Issue , 2013, Pages 2-11

  Dai, ZhiHui ^a,b   Feng, Xinbin ^a   Zhang, Chao ^a,b   Shang, Lihai ^a   Qiu, Guangle ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Guizhou; Hg migration; Mercury contaminated area; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; SURFACE WATER;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; CHEMICAL MASS BALANCE; EROSION RATE; GIS; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE CHANGE; MEADOW; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; REVISED UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION; SOIL EROSION; SURFACE WATER; WATER EROSION;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE; MINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; SOIL EROSION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

GUIZHOU; HG MIGRATION; MERCURY CONTAMINATED AREA; SOIL EROSION;

CHINA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GEOGRAPHY; MERCURY; MINING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORYZA SATIVA; WASTE PRODUCTS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

CHINA; GUIZHOU; WANSHAN;

EID: 84881499385     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2013.03.014     Document Type: Article

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