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Lithium — a new approach for the granulometric normalization of trace metal data
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The authors showed that Li can be used effectively to normalize for the natural granular and mineralogical variability of Cr, Cu, and Zn concentrations in eastern Canadian estuarine and coastal sediments.About:
This article is published in Marine Chemistry.The article was published on 1990-01-01. It has received 261 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Normalization (statistics) & Trace metal.read more
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Manual for the geochemical analyses of marine sediments and suspended particulate matter
D.H. Loring,R.T.T. Rantala +1 more
TL;DR: A detailed description of the techniques and analytical procedures for sampling, grain size determinations, and for precise and accurate AAS determination of the major and trace metals in marine sediments and suspended particulate matter is given in this paper.
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Geochemistry of Major and Trace Elements in Sediments of the Ria de Vigo (NW Spain): an Assessment of Metal Pollution ☆
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used PCA to define background values for metals in the Ria de Vigo area and concluded that the region is slightly to moderately polluted for some of the studied metals.
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Iron as a reference element for determining trace metal enrichment in southern california coastal shelf sediments
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used iron as a conservative tracer to differentiate natural from anthropogenic components of bulk sediment metal concentrations in the Southern California Bight (SCB), and established baseline relationships between iron and eight trace metals were established using data from nonimpacted sites distant from known point and non-point sources of pollution.
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Macrobenthic community in the Douro estuary: relations with trace metals and natural sediment characteristics.
TL;DR: This study allowed detection of a clear signature of anthropogenic contamination, in terms of Zn, Cu, Pb, and Cr in the north bank of the estuary, which experiences high urban pressure.
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Application of a normalization procedure in determining regional geochemical baselines
Stefano Covelli,Giorgio Fontolan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the regional variability of some geochemical parameters in the Gulf of Trieste is considered in terms of their relationship with Al, used as a normalization factor for each element, defined as the ratio between the actual and predicted baseline value.
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The distribution of clay minerals in the World Ocean
TL;DR: In this article, the relative amounts of chlorite, montmorillonite, kaolinite and illite in the less than 2 micron size fraction of pelagic sediments are related to the sources and transport paths of solid phases from the continents to the oceans and to injections of volcanic materials to the marine environment.
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Natural trace metal concentrations in estuarine and coastal marine sediments of the southeastern United States
Herbert L. Windom,Steven J. Schropp,Fred D. Calder,Joseph D. Ryan,Ralph G. Smith,Louis C. Burney,Frank G. Lewis,Charles H. Rawlinson +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, over 450 sediment samples from estuarine and coastal marine areas of the southeastern US remote from contaminant sources were analyzed for trace metals, and the covariance of metals with aluminum provided a useful basis for identification and comparison of anthropogenic inputs to southeastern US coastal/estuarine sediments.
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History of metal pollution in southern California coastal zone
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A procedure for correcting the grain size effect in heavy metal analyses of estuarine and coastal sediments
TL;DR: In this paper, a series of potential reference elements (Cs, Eu, Fe, Rb, Sc, Sm and Th) were studied by Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) in sediment samples from the Ems Estuary in order to find a trace element that would be particularly wellsuited for employment in the Relative Atomic Variation (RAV)1 method for correcting grain size effects.
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The geochemistry of modern sediments from the Gulf of Paria—II The location and distribution of trace elements
TL;DR: In this article, minor element analyses have been made on modern sediments from the Gulf of Paria, and the total trace element data suggest that Ga, Cr, V, Cr and Pb probably entered the basin of deposition mainly combined structurally in the lattices of the degraded clay minerals.
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