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Factors controlling the availability of sediment-bound lead to the estuarine bivalve scrobicularia plana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Samuel N. Luoma  and
G. W. Bryan
Samuel N. Luoma
Affiliation:
U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.
G. W. Bryan
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
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Concentrations of lead in the soft tissues of the deposit-feeding bivalve Scrobicularia plana have been compared with the physicochemical characteristics of sediments in 20 estuaries in southern and western England and one in north-west France. The results indicate that the biological availability of lead in the sediment is controlled mainly by the concentration of iron, and that the concentration of lead in the bivalve may be predicted from the Pb/Fe ratio in 1 N hydrochloric acid extracts of surface sediments.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 58 , Issue 4 , November 1978 , pp. 793 - 802
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1978

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