Assessment of sources and concentration of metal contaminants in marine sediments of Musa Estuary, Persian Gulf

Journal of Environmental Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 345-360

  Vaezi, Alireza ^a   Karbassi, Abdolreza ^a   Fakhraee, Mojtaba ^a   Samani, Alireza Valikhani ^a   Heidari, Mehdi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Chemical partitioning; Cluster analysis; Metal pollution; Persian gulf sediment contamination

Indexed keywords

MUSA; PISCES;

EID: 84921810636     PISSN: 10258620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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