Geochemical background in polluted river sediments: How to separate the effects of sediment provenance and grain size with statistical rigour?

Catena

Volumn 135, Issue , 2015, Pages 240-253

  Bábek, Ondřej ^a   Grygar, Tomáš Matys ^b   Faměra, Martin ^a   Hron, Karel ^a   Nováková, Tereza ^b   Sedláček, Jan ^a  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic contamination; Enrichment factors; Fluvial sediments; Geochemical background; Geochemistry; Log ratio statistics

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; GRAIN SIZE; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TITANIUM;

CZECH REPUBLIC; MORAVA RIVER;

EID: 84940480889     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2015.07.003     Document Type: Article

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