Increases in Anthropogenic Gadolinium Anomalies and Rare Earth Element Concentrations in San Francisco Bay over a 20 Year Record

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 4159-4168

  Hatje, Vanessa ^a,b   Bruland, Kenneth W ^a   Flegal, A Russell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); HETEROJUNCTIONS; IMPURITIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; RARE EARTHS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EMERGING CONTAMINANT; HIGH RESOLUTION INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRIES; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; RESEARCH CENTER; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES; WASTEWATER DISCHARGE;

GADOLINIUM;

GADOLINIUM; LANTHANIDE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GADOLINIUM; HOSPITAL SECTOR; POLLUTION POLICY; RESEARCH INSTITUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE WATER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRACER; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION;

ANTHROPOLOGY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BAY; CALIFORNIA; COASTAL WATERS; HYDROLOGY; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SALINITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; WATER POLLUTANT;

CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

BAYS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GADOLINIUM; METALS, RARE EARTH; SAN FRANCISCO; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84966290887     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b04322     Document Type: Article

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