Mercury and selected trace elements from a remote (gosainkunda) and an urban (Phewa) Lake Waters of Nepal

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Sharma, Chhatra Mani ^a,b,c   Kang, Shichang ^d,e   Sillanpää, Mika ^c   Li, Qing ^b   Zhang, Qianggong ^b   Huang, Jie ^b   Tripathee, Lekhendra ^b,f   Sharma, Subodh ^a   Paudyal, Rukumesh ^c,d,f  

^a KATHMANDU UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^e CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

^f Himalayan Environment Research Institute (HERI)   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Lake Gosainkunda; Lake Phewa; Mercury; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; LAKES; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY (METAL); NICKEL; POLLUTION; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZINC;

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTHROPOGENIC INPUTS; ANTHROPOGENIC ORIGIN; CRUSTAL ELEMENTS; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; INDUSTRIAL AREA; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; POTENTIAL SOURCES;

LAKE POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY; NICKEL; SURFACE WATER; TRACE ELEMENT; VANADIUM;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CADMIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITION; LAKE WATER; LEAD; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTANT SOURCE; TRACE ELEMENT; URBAN AREA;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LAKE; LATITUDE; METHYLATION; NEPAL; SEDIMENT; SOIL; URBAN AREA; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHED;

GANDAKI; LAKE GOSAINKUNDA; NEPAL; PHEWA LAKE;

EID: 84922370292     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-014-2276-3     Document Type: Article

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