Pollution of the Caspian Sea marine environment along the Iranian coast

5th International Conference on Environmental Informatics, ISEIS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Parizanganeh, Abdolhossein ^a   Lakhan, V Chris ^b   Ahmad, Sajid R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZANJAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caspian Sea; Discriminant analysis; Heavy metals; Iran; Marine environment; Nearshore sediments

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CADMIUM; COASTAL ENGINEERING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HEALTH RISKS; HEAVY METALS; IMPURITIES; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LEAD; MANGANESE; MARINE POLLUTION; METAL ANALYSIS; METALS; MINERALS; NICKEL; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS; ZINC;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; BOX AND WHISKER PLOTS; CASPIAN SEA; DISTRIBUTION OF METAL; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; IRAN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NEARSHORES;

COPPER;

EID: 84915745421     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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