Distribution of heavy metals in the coastal area of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates

Al Rashdi, Saeed; Arabi, Alya A.; Howari, Fares M.; Siad, Abdi

Distribution of heavy metals in the coastal area of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates

2015

Al Rashdi, Saeed | Arabi, Alya A. | Howari, Fares M. | Siad, Abdi

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.

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AGROVOC Keywords

antimony arsenic barium cadmium coasts cobalt copper fluorescence heavy metals lead mercury molybdenum nickel spectroscopy united arab emirates water pollution zinc

Bibliographic information

Published in

Marine pollution bulletin

Volume 97 Issue 1 Pagination 494 - 498 ISSN 0025-326X

Publisher

Elsevier Ltd

Other Subjects

Pollution load index; Heavy metals contamination; Pollution load; Abu dhabi coastal area in the united arab emirates; Enrichment factor; Sediments; Sediments; X-radiation; Geoaccumulation index

Language

English

Type

Text; Journal Article

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DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.05.052

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