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X-ray Fluorescence Analysis of Trace Metals in the Annual Growth Layers of Freshwater Mussel Shells

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

William E. Maddox ,
Leon Duobinis-Gray ,
David A. Owen  and
James B. Sickel
William E. Maddox
Affiliation:
Murray State University Murray, Kentucky
Leon Duobinis-Gray
Affiliation:
Murray State University Murray, Kentucky
David A. Owen
Affiliation:
Murray State University Murray, Kentucky
James B. Sickel
Affiliation:
Murray State University Murray, Kentucky
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Freshwater mussels (Mollusca: Unionidae) are filter feeders that are relatively immobile, widely distributed and are known to concentrate trace metals in their shells (1,2,3). These characteristics make them good candidates for monitoring metal pollution in lakes and rivers. Another characteristic of mussels that make them particularly attractive as pollution monitors is the fact the shell is deposited in distinctive, annual growth layers. The concentrations of metals in these shell layers may provide a history ol the metals present in the environment where the mussel was collected.

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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 33: Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, July 31 - August 4, 1989 , 1989 , pp. 665 - 670
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1989

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