Anthropogenic Rare Earth Element in rivers: GADOLINIUM and lanthanum. Partitioning between the dissolved and particulate phases in the Rhine River and spatial propagation through the Rhine-Meuse Delta (the Netherlands)

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue , 2014, Pages 186-197

  Klaver, Gerard ^a,b   Verheul, Marc ^c   Bakker, Ingrid ^d   Petelet Giraud, Emmanuelle ^a   Négrel, Philippe ^a  

^a BRGM   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^d RIJKSWATERSTAAT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DISSOLUTION; EFFLUENTS; GADOLINIUM; LANTHANUM; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS;

ANTHROPOGENIC INPUTS; CATCHMENT SCALE; DIFFUSE POLLUTION; DISSOLVED LOAD; PARTICULATE PHASIS; RHINE-MEUSE DELTAS; SPATIAL PROPAGATION; WATER EFFLUENTS;

WATER RESOURCES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CATCHMENT; DISSOLVED LOAD; EFFLUENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

MEUSE RIVER; RHINE RIVER;

EID: 84903981109     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: 18729134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2014.05.020     Document Type: Article

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