Investigation factors that control trace metal toxicity in coastal systems : a temporal and spatial analysis of kinetically inert copper in Boston Harbor

(cont.) form of inert Cu. Correlations between Cu concentrations and total suspended solids at one sampling location suggested that sediment resuspension may be a source of inert Cu to coastal waters. Consistently significant inert Cu concentrations at a site near a salt marsh implied that the presence of sulfides may result in formation of inert Cu. No correlation between inert Cu and chlorophyll a was observed, suggesting that biological formation of inert Cu compounds in situ did not occur in this system. Whether Cu is added to surface waters as existing inert Cu compounds or as inert Cu that is formed when exchangeable Cu reacts with certain constituents in surface waters remains a subject for future work.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2004

Author dc:creator

• Fitzmaurice, Arthur G., 1980-

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• Bettina M. Voelker.

• Civil and Environmental Engineering.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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en_US

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