Microplastic pollution of lakeshore sediments from remote lakes in Tibet plateau, China

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 219, Issue , 2016, Pages 450-455

  Zhang, Kai ^a,c   Su, Jing ^b   Xiong, Xiong ^a   Wu, Xiang ^b   Wu, Chenxi ^a   Liu, Jiantong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Distribution; Identification; Lakeshore sediment; Microplastics; Northern Tibet; Surface texture

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); LAKES; PLASTIC BOTTLES; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; PLASTICS INDUSTRY; POLYPROPYLENES; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; POPULATION STATISTICS; RIVER POLLUTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENTS; TEXTURES;

DISTRIBUTION; LASER RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; MECHANICAL WEATHERINGS; MICROPLASTICS; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; NORTHERN TIBET; POPULATION DENSITIES; SURFACE TEXTURES;

MICROPLASTIC;

MICROPLASTIC; PLASTIC; POLYETHYLENE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE; POLYPROPYLENE; POLYSTYRENE; POLYVINYLCHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER POLLUTANT;

LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PLASTIC WASTE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEXTURE;

ARTICLE; CHINA; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); LAKE; OXIDATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WEATHERING; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; TIBET; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHINA; SILING LAKE; XIZANG;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LAKES; PLASTICS; TIBET; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84969963483     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.05.048     Document Type: Article

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