A survey of benthic sediment contaminants in reaches of the Columbia River Estuary based on channel sedimentation characteristics

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 484, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 331-343

  Counihan, Timothy D ^a   Waite, Ian R ^b   Nilsen, Elena B ^b   Hardiman, Jill M ^a   Elias, Edwin ^b   Gelfenbaum, Guy ^b   Zaugg, Steven D ^b  

^a WESTERN FISHERIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Columbia river estuary; Hydrodynamic model; Sediment contaminants; Sediment transport; Survey design

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CONTAMINATION; DESIGN; EROSION; ESTUARIES; FISH; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IMPURITIES; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SURVEYS;

COLUMBIA RIVER ESTUARIES; CONTAMINANT CONCENTRATIONS; DISTRIBUTION OF CONTAMINANTS; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; ORGANIC MATTER COMPOSITIONS; SEDIMENT CONTAMINANTS; SEDIMENTATION CHARACTERISTIC; SURVEY DESIGN;

RIVER POLLUTION;

FLAME RETARDANT; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; ORGANIC MATTER; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; WATER POLLUTANT;

BENTHOS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITION; EROSION; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; GRAIN SIZE; HYDRODYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; RIVER CHANNEL; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURVEY; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COLOMBIA; CONTAMINATED ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EROSION; ESTUARY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PANDION HALIAETUS; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WATER CONTAMINATION; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RIVER; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

COLUMBIA ESTUARY; COLUMBIA RIVER; UNITED STATES;

INVERTEBRATA; PANDION HALIAETUS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARIES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84899650332     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.03.013     Document Type: Article

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