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A study on seasonal accumulation of metals in Tirumalairajan river estuary and adjacent coastal track, Tamil Nadu, east coast of India

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Title A study on seasonal accumulation of metals in Tirumalairajan river estuary and adjacent coastal track, Tamil Nadu, east coast of India
 
Creator Venkatramanan, Senapathi
Chung, Sang Yong
Ramkumar, Thirunavukkarasu
Vasudevan, Sivaprakasam
 
Subject Heavy metals
Enrichment Factor
Sediments
Irrigations and Industrial Westwater East Coast of India.
 
Description 841-847
Seasonal accumulation of
metal concentrations (Fe, Mn, Zn, Pb, Cu, Cr, Co and Ni) in surface sediments
from the Tirumalairajan estuary and its adjacent coastal track of east coast of
India
were studied. Fe, Mn, Cr, Co and Ni are relatively high enrichment factor in
both estuary and beach environments. Calculated enrichment factor (EF) with
respect to the upper continental crust values show that the analyzed sediments
are depleted in Fe, Mn, Co, Cr, Ni and enriched in Zn, Pb, Cu. Moreover, metal
concentrations have positive correlations with to the particle size and organic
matter content of the sediments, which strongly suggests that the influence of
irrigation and industrial wastewaters discharged from the neighboring
irrigation land and industries. Factor analysis clearly reveals that fine
particles and organic matter control the distribution of metals in the
sediments.
 
Date 2016-06-23T11:30:47Z
2016-06-23T11:30:47Z
2014-05
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/28769
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.43(5) [May 2014]