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An ecological risk index for aquatic pollution control.a sedimentological approach
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In this article, a sedimentological risk index for toxic substances in limnic systems should at least, account for the following four requirements: the following: the quality of the sediment, the water quality, the sediment quality, and the sediment diversity.About:
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Ecological risk assessment of heavy metals in sediment and human health risk assessment of heavy metals in fishes in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River basin
TL;DR: Investigation of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China found that heavy metals may be mainly derived from metal processing, electroplating industries, industrial wastewater, and domestic sewage, and Hg may also originate from coal combustion.
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Assessment of heavy metal enrichment factors and the degree of contamination in marine sediments from Tamaki Estuary, Auckland, New Zealand.
G. M. S. Abrahim,R. J. Parker +1 more
TL;DR: Comparative data for normalized enrichment factors and the modified degree of contamination show that Tamaki Estuary sediments have suffered significant systematic heavy metal contamination following catchment urbanization.
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Metal contamination of farming soils affected by industry
TL;DR: Tests revealed elevated contents of cadmium, lead, arsenic, antimony and mercury in farming soils of Suszec commune, which pointed to metal depletion in the soil.
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Assessment of heavy metal contamination in sediments of the Tigris River (Turkey) using pollution indices and multivariate statistical techniques.
TL;DR: PCA/FA and cluster analysis suggest that As, Cd, Co,Cr, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni and Zn are derived from the anthropogenic sources, particularly metallic discharges of the copper mine plant.
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Assessing heavy metal contamination in Sado Estuary sediment: An index analysis approach
Sandra Caeiro,Maria Helena Costa,Tomás B. Ramos,Fontainhas B. Fernandes,Nelson José Freitas da Silveira,Ana M. Coimbra,G. Medeiros,Marco Painho +7 more
TL;DR: The Sado Estuary in Portugal is a good example of a site where human pressures and ecological values collide with each other as mentioned in this paper, and an overall contamination assessment has never been conducted in a way that is comprehensible to estuary managers.
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Distribution of the Elements in Some Major Units of the Earth's Crust
Karl K. Turekian,K. H. Wedepohl +1 more
TL;DR: A table of abundances of the elements in the various major units of the Earth's lithic crust with a documentation of the sources and a discussion of the choice of units and data is presented in this article.
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Determination of recent sedimentation rates in lake michigan using pb – 210 and cs – 137
TL;DR: In this paper, the use of zloPb and 13'Cs radioactivity measurements to determine the rates of sedimentation in the Great Lakes was described. But the results were limited to eight locations in Lake Michigan.
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Forms of Phosphorus in the Surficial Sediments of Lake Erie
TL;DR: The phosphorus in 48 surficial Lake Erie sediment samples was present in three major forms: phosphorus associated with apatite, nonapatite inorganic phosphorus (NAIP), and organic phosphorus.
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The influence of wind, fetch, and water depth on the distribution of sediments in Lake Vänern, Sweden
TL;DR: In this article, the authors established an erosion-transportation-accumulation diagram for fine recent deposits on lake bottoms and empirically showed empirically that an understanding of the bottom dynamic...
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