The watershed flux of mercury examined with indicators in the Tucuruí reservoir in Pará, Brazil

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  1995

• Venue

  Science of The Total Environment

• Publication date

  1995-12-11

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/0048-9697(95)04906-1
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