Estudio de la contaminación por metales en sedimentos acuáticos de la Bahía de Matanzas

AUTOR(ES)

Quevedo, Odalys, Gómez, Jorge, Ramírez, Carmen, Estrada, Tamara, Moreno, Carlos, Mendiguchía, Carolina, Villanueva Tagle, Margarita Edelia, Pomares Alfonso, Mario Simeón

FONTE

Química Nova

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2012

RESUMO

Surface sediments of the Bay of Matanzas (Cuba) were studied to assess its environmental quality by using several criteria (metal content index, pollution load index and sediment quality guidelines). Two partial digestion sediment procedures and a modified BCR sequential extraction were used. The concentrations of metals were measured by atomic spectroscopy methods. The founded contents of Cu (2,4-27,9 mg kg-1), Zn (2,5-55,5 mg kg-1) and Ni (8,8-99,2 mg kg-1) were below those reported by other authors. The results obtained suggested that the most polluted sites were 3, 5, and 6. The sequential extraction procedure showed that most of the studied metals were associated to the more stable fractions.

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