Juturnaíba Lake has been utilized for the captation of water to supply over one million
people in the Lakes Region, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The water treatment plant sludges have …

The analysis of heavy metals in sediments, associated with geochronology, can identify the
historical accumulation of these contaminants that occurred over time as a result of …

Aim: Nowadays, one of the major concerns of the ecology studies relating to aquatic
ecosystems refers to the impact caused by the releasing of heavy metals in several natural …

The concentrations and possible chemical associations of Al, Fe, Mn, Ca, Cu, Pb, Cd, Zn, Ni
and Cr in sediments of the Tietê-Pinheiros river system in São Paulo state, Brazil, were …

The distribution of heavy metals in recent sediments deposited along the Tietê River, a
highly polluted river in southeast region of Brazil was studied. Around the metropolitan area …

The fractionation of heavy metals in riverbed sediments along the Tietê River basin, a highly
polluted river in southeast region of Brazil, was investigated using a four-step sequential …

This work evaluates Hg, Zn, Fe and Mn transfer from the leachate of a refuse tip based on
their accumulation in a sediment core of 17 cm collected in a leachate pond of a small refuse …

In tropical climates, the high rainfall and temperature, throughout the annual cycle, allow
high leaching rates of metallic elements from the basin upstream, which accumulate in the …

Temporal and spatial variability of particulate metal concentrations (Cu, Cr, Zn, Mn and Fe)
were investigated in the lower drainage basin of the Paraíba do Sul River. The results …

SciELO - Brasil - Distribuição de metais pesados em sedimentos do sistema estuarino da Ilha
de Vitória-ES Distribuição de metais pesados em sedimentos do sistema estuarino da Ilha de …