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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Palabras clave de AGROVOC

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

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Marine pollution bulletin

Volumen 97 Edición 1 Paginación 494 - 498 ISSN 0025-326X

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Elsevier Ltd

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

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Journal Article; Text

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

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