Acid-volatile sulfide and simultaneously extracted metals in surface sediments of the southwestern coastal Laizhou Bay, Bohai Sea: Concentrations, spatial distributions and the indication of heavy metal pollution status

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 128-138

  Zhuang, Wen ^a,b   Gao, Xuelu ^a  

^a YANTAI INSTITUTE OF COASTAL ZONE RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Acid volatile sulfide; Heavy metal; Laizhou Bay; Sediment; Simultaneously extracted metal

Indexed keywords

ACID-VOLATILE SULFIDE; ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; HEAVY METAL POLLUTION; LAIZHOU BAY; RIVERINE SEDIMENTS; SIMULTANEOUSLY EXTRACTED METALS; US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;

CADMIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; HEAVY METALS; SEDIMENTS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS;

TOXICITY;

CADMIUM; HEAVY METAL; ORGANIC CARBON; SULFIDE; ZINC;

COASTAL SEDIMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEAVY METAL; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SULFIDE; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CHINA; COASTAL WATERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOTOXICOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEA POLLUTION; SEDIMENT; SUMMER; WATER ANALYSIS;

CHINA; LAIZHOU BAY; SHANDONG;

ACID-VOLATILE SULFIDE; HEAVY METAL; LAIZHOU BAY; SEDIMENT; SIMULTANEOUSLY EXTRACTED METAL;

BAYS; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS, HEAVY; SULFIDES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84886094202     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.09.016     Document Type: Article

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