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Invertebrate shells as pollution bio-indicators, Gebel El-Zeit area, Gulf of Suez,Egypt

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Title Invertebrate shells as pollution bio-indicators, Gebel El-Zeit area, Gulf of Suez,Egypt
 
Creator Youssef, Mohamed
El-Sorogy, Abdelbaset
El-Sabrouty, Mohamed
Al-Otaibi, Naif
 
Subject Pelecypod
Gastropod
Heavy metals
Pleistocene
Recent
Gulf of Suez
 
Description 1465-1474
Sixteen well preserved Pelecypod and
gastropod shells were analyzed for their Mn, Ni, Co, Cu, Zn and Pb content.
Eight shells are belonging to the Pleistocene of Gebel El-Zeit and eight recent
shells were collected from El-Zeit Bay. Average metal accumulation levels in
Pleistocene shell of the study area is in the following order Mn< Ni < Cu
< Co < Zn < Pb, while in the Recent shell are in the following order Mn< Ni < Co < Zn < Cu < Pb. This is due to the human activities such as: shipping, the oil pollution resulted from the oil industries, where Gabal El Zeit area is one of the important areas of oil exploration in Egypt. Natural sources of heavy metals include: terrigenous inputs from wadis during flash floods that transport terrestrial material into the sea.
 
Date 2016-06-28T04:15:10Z
2016-06-28T04:15:10Z
2014-08
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/34528
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.43(8) [August 2014]