Heavy metal contamination of Yellow River alluvial sediments, northwest China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3403-3415

  Li, Peiyue ^a   Qian, Hui ^a   Howard, Ken W F ^b   Wu, Jianhua ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contamination index; Heavy metal contamination; Multivariate statistics; Potential ecological risk; Risk assessment; Sediment pollution

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METALS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS;

CONTAMINATION INDEX; HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; POTENTIAL ECOLOGICAL RISK; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; HEAVY METAL; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

CHINA; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 85028158875     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-014-3628-4     Document Type: Article

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