Processes affecting metal concentrations in estuarine and coastal marine sediments

Heavy Metals in the Marine Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 51-66

  Luoma, Samuel N ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALS; SEDIMENTS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

COASTAL MARINE SEDIMENTS; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENTS; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; METAL REACTIONS; PARTICLE SURFACE; TRACE METAL;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

EID: 85052763750     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781351073158     Document Type: Chapter

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