Methodology to assess the mobility of trace elements between water and contaminated estuarine sediments as a function of the site physico-chemical characteristics

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 473-474, Issue , 2014, Pages 359-371

  Fdez Ortiz de Vallejuelo, Silvia ^a   Gredilla, Ainara ^a   de Diego, Alberto ^a   Arana, Gorka ^a   Madariaga, Juan Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Estuarine sediments; Estuarine waters; Mobilisation process; Mobility of metals; Physico chemical parameters; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

ESTUARIES; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; RIVER POLLUTION; SEDIMENTS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT; ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS; ESTUARINE WATERS; INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGIES; MOBILISATION; PHYSICO - CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION PROCEDURE;

EXTRACTION;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CARBONIC ACID; CHROMIUM; COBALT; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; ORGANIC MATTER; TIN; TRACE ELEMENT; WATER; ZINC;

CARBONATE; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; HEAVY METAL; KRIGING; MOBILITY; MOBILIZATION; ORGANIC MATTER; PH; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SALINITY; TOXICITY; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BIOLOGICAL RISK; CHEMOMETRIC ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTUARY; EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; PH; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SALINITY; SEA; SEDIMENT; SIMULATION; SPAIN; SPRING; SUMMER; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WINTER;

BASQUE COUNTRY [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

RUMEX;

ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS; ESTUARINE WATERS; MOBILISATION PROCESS; MOBILITY OF METALS; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARIES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; RIVERS; SALINITY; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84891109313     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.12.025     Document Type: Article

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