Fluxes of Heavy Metals from a Highly Polluted Watershed During Flood Events: A Case Study of the Litavka River, Czech Republic

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 203, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 343-358

  Žák, Karel ^a   Rohovec, Jan ^a   Navrátil, Tomáš ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Flood events; Heavy metal contamination; Litavka river; P bram ore region; Suspended particulate matter

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CADMIUM; CHARCOAL; CONTAMINATION; DEFORESTATION; FLOODS; HEAVY METALS; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORES; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; SMELTING; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHEDS; ZINC;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; CHARCOAL FRAGMENTS; CONTAMINATED SOILS; FINE-GRAINED MATERIAL; FLOOD EVENT; FLOODPLAIN SEDIMENTS; HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTERS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

CADMIUM; CARBON 14; CHARCOAL; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; SILVER; TIN; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; DEFORESTATION; FLOODING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; POND; RADIOMETRIC DATING; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SOIL EROSION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHED;

EID: 85014497214     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-009-0017-9     Document Type: Article

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