Tracing and tracking wastewater-derived substances in freshwater lakes and reservoirs: Anthropogenic gadolinium and geogenic REEs in Lake Paranoá, Brasilia

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 347, Issue 5-6, 2015, Pages 284-293

  Merschel, Gila ^a,b   Bau, Michael ^a   Baldewein, Linda ^a   Dantas, Elton Luiz ^b   Walde, Detlef ^b   Bühn, Bernhard ^b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic gadolinium; Cerium anomaly; Lake Parano ; Lanthanide tetrad effect; Rare earth elements

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GADOLINIUM; LAKE; POLLUTION MONITORING; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; RESERVOIR; TRACER; TRACKING; URANIUM; WASTEWATER;

BRASILIA; BRAZIL; FEDERAL DISTRICT [BRAZIL]; PARANOA LAKE;

EID: 84947041645     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: 17787025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2015.01.004     Document Type: Article

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