Geochemical Study of Heavy Metal Contamination of Shalmanrud River Sediments

نویسندگان

1 Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran.

2 Department of Environment, Faculty of Science, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran.

3 Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran.

4 Department of Environment, Faculty of Science, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran.

doi
10.32598/AHS.11.1.349.9
چکیده

Background & Aims: Due to chemical stability, low degradation, and high bioaccumulation power at different levels of the food chain, heavy metals pose many ecological hazards to living organisms. Therefore, the present study investigated the concentrations of heavy metals As, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, V, and Zn and evaluated the ...