Heavy-metal pollution of sediments from Szczecin Lagoon and the Gdansk Basin, Poland

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 330, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 249-269

  Glasby, G P ^a   Szefer, P ^a   Geldon, J ^a   Warzocha, J ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Flood; Gdansk Basin; Heavy metal pollution; Rare earth elements; Sediments; Szczecin Lagoon

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FLOODS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLLUTION; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; SEWAGE LAGOONS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE (EEZ); FACTOR ANALYSIS (FA); ORGANIC MATTERS;

HEAVY METALS;

ALUMINUM; ANTIMONY; BARIUM; CADMIUM; CALCIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; IRON; LANTHANIDE; LEAD; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; SILICON; SODIUM; STRONTIUM; THORIUM; TITANIUM; URANIUM; VANADIUM; ZINC;

FLOOD; HEAVY METAL; LAGOON; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; LAGOON; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GDANSK BASIN; OCEANIC REGIONS; POLAND; SZCZECIN; WORLD; ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE;

EID: 8544275299     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.04.004     Document Type: Article

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