Sediment composition and normalisation procedures: an example from a QUASH project sediment exercise
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S Miserocchi1, L G Bellucci, M Marcaccio
1Istituto di Geologia Marina, CNR, Bologna, Italy. stefano@igm.bo.cnr.it
Journal of Environmental Monitoring : JEM
|March 20, 2001
Abstract:
The QUASH UE-Project was designed to assess the reliability of normalisation approaches to compensate the influence of natural process affecting the distribution and concentration of contaminants in sediment. The focus of this paper was to test the influence on normalisation procedures of an inorganic matrix using a sample collected in the Venice Lagoon, Italy.

