Metal Contaminated Aquatic Sediments

by Herbert E. Allen and Herberte Allen

Over the past decade the sediments of many rivers, lakes, and estuaries have been contaminated by inorganic and organic materials. Contaminants from sediments, under certain conditions, can be released into overlying waters. Thus, sediments may be an important source of contaminants to waters in which littoral and atmospheric contaminants have been reduced or eliminated.
Often found in aquatic sediments, metals are exposed to many reactions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575040107
• ISBN13: 9781575040103
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"