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  Environmental Assessment of Heavy Metals Contamination of Bottom Sediments of Oman Gulf, United Arab Emirates
  Author(s): El Tokhi M, Amin BM and Alaabed SAEl Tokhi M, Amin BM and Alaabed SA
  
  To investigate the bottom sediments pollution characteristics and environmental assessments, twenty three samples were collected from Khor Kalba, Fujairah, Khor Fakkan and Dibba coastal areas, Oman Gulf, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The concentrations of copper, zinc, lead, iron, manganese, chromium, arsenic nickel, cobalt, cadmium, molybdenum and vanadium are varied between (9.00, 17. 15 , 11.62, 19812.8, 254.85, 156.57, 15.14, 497.46, 24.46, 5.02 and 19.40 ppm) respectively were obtained using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectroscopy (ICP-MS) at Geology Departments, UAE University. The levels of all heavy metals in all 23 samples collected do not exceed the safety limits set by the Dutch guidelines except of Ni. The levels of heavy metals enrichments in the bottom sediments were determined using contamination indices: the Contamination Factor (CF), Enrichment Factor (EF), Geo-acc.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2375-4397.1000203

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