Distribution and sources of heavy metals in the sediment of Xiangshan Bay

• Main Authors: Sun, Weiping, Yu, Jianjun, Xu, Xiaoqun, Zhang, Weiyan, Liu, Ruijuan, Pan, Jianming
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering::Water resources
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106368; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/34460; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13131-014-0456-z
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Heavy metals in the surface sediments and sediment core from the Xiangshan Bay, a mariculture base on the coast of the East China Sea, were determined by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) in order to evaluate their levels and sources. The results showed that the levels of Cu, Pb,...