Distribution and pollution risk assessment of heavy metals in the surface sediment of the intertidal zones of the Yellow River Estuary, China

• Published in: Marine pollution bulletin Vol. 174; p. 113286
• Main Authors: Wang, Zhe, Lin, Kuixuan, Liu, Xiaoshou
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2022; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Autumn; Cadmium; China; Chromium; Cobalt; Copper; Distribution; Enrichment factor; Environmental Monitoring; Environmental risk; Estuaries; Estuarine dynamics; Geoaccumulation index; Geologic Sediments; Hakanson potential ecological risk index; Heavy metals; Humans; hydrodynamics; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Intertidal environment; Intertidal zone; Iron; Lead; littoral zone; Manganese; marine pollution; Mass spectrometry; Mass spectroscopy; Metal concentrations; Metals; Metals, Heavy - analysis; Nickel; Organic matter; particle size; Pollutants; Pollution; Pollution risk assessment; risk; Risk Assessment; Rivers; Sediment; Sediments; Summer; Water analysis; Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis; Yellow River; Yellow River Estuary; Zinc; China; Yellow River; Enrichment factor; Pollution risk assessment; Yellow River Estuary; Heavy metals; Hakanson potential ecological risk index; Geoaccumulation index

Eleven heavy metals (V, Cr, Mn, Co, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Cd, and Pb) in surface sediment in the intertidal zones of the Yellow River Estuary, China were analyzed by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry in summer and autumn 2019. Results indicated that the 11 heavy metals had the same sources....