Influence of fluvial environments on sediment archiving processes and temporal pollutant dynamics (Upper Loire River, France)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 505, Issue , 2015, Pages 121-136

  Dhivert, E ^a   Grosbois, C ^a   Rodrigues, S ^a   Desmet, M ^a  

^a Parc de Grandmont   (France)

Author keywords

Archiving processes; Depositional environments; Floodplain sediments; Loire basin; Pollutant temporal dynamics; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FLOODPLAIN SEDIMENTS; LOIRE BASIN; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

TRACE ELEMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AGGRADATION; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FLOODPLAIN; PALEOCHANNEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RIVER BANK; RIVER CHANNEL; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FLOODPLAIN; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEDIMENT; STREAM (RIVER); WATER CONTAMINATION; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRANCE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; RIVERS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

FRANCE; LOIRE RIVER;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRANCE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; RIVERS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84908326180     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.09.082     Document Type: Article

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