Journal
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
Volume 97, Issue 1-2, Pages 494-498Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.05.052
Keywords
Heavy metals contamination; Sediments; Abu Dhabi coastal area in the United Arab; Emirates; Geoaccumulation index; Enrichment factor; Pollution load index
Funding
- United Arab Emirates Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa
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Fifty-seven sediment samples were collected from Abu Dhabi coastal area, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The concentrations of heavy metals including antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, cobalt, copper, mercury, lead, molybdenum, nickel and zinc were obtained using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectroscopy (ICP-MS) and X-ray fluorescence. Heavy metal contaminations in Abu Dhabi had increased since 2004. Nevertheless, the enrichment factors, geoaccumulation indices and the pollution load index of 0.3 showed no pollution with any of the measured metals except arsenic. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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