A Review of Flood-Related Storage and Remobilization of Heavy Metal Pollutants in River Systems

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 227, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Ciszewski, Dariusz ^a   Grygar, Tomáš Matys ^b,c  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^c J E PURKINJE UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Flood; Heavy metals; Mobilization; Pollution; River; Sediment

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; GROUNDWATER; HEAVY METALS; METALS; POLLUTION; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS;

ARTIFICIAL STRUCTURES; DISTRIBUTION OF METAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FLOODPLAIN INUNDATION; HEAVY METAL POLLUTANTS; MOBILIZATION; RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE; WATER TABLE FLUCTUATIONS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

HEAVY METAL; OXYGEN;

FLOOD; FLOODPLAIN; HEAVY METAL; REMOBILIZATION; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER SYSTEM; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; LEACHING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SOIL EROSION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TABLE;

EID: 84976287157     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-016-2934-8     Document Type: Article

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