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Arsenic in U.K. estuarine sediments and its availability to benthic organisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

W. J. Langston
W. J. Langston
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The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
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Arsenic concentrations in estuarine sediments from England and Wales range over three orders of magnitude. The highest concentrations, up to 2500 μg/g, occur in the sediments of estuaries in south west England associated with past or present metalliferous mining activity. Strong correlations exist between arsenic and iron in 1 N-HC1 extracts of different estuarine sediments. The As/Fe ratio in those estuaries not contaminated with mine wastes is 11 × 10−4, increasing to 190 × 10—4 in metalliferous sediments.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 60 , Issue 4 , November 1980 , pp. 869 - 881
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1980

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