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Title

Toxic contaminants in the Great Lakes / edited by Jerome O. Nriagu, Milagros S. Simmons.

Publication

New York : Wiley, c1984.

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Additional Authors

• Nriagu, Jerome O.
• Simmons, Mila S.

Description

xiii, 527 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in environmental science and technology ; v. 14

Uniform Title

Advances in environmental science and technology v. 14.

Subject

• Great Lakes Region
• Great Lakes Region (North America)
• Organic water pollutants > Toxicology
• Water > Pollution > Great Lakes Region (North America)
• Water > Pollution > Great Lakes Region
• Water Pollutants > toxicity
• Water Pollution

Note

• "A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. Perspectives on human health concerns from Great Lakes contaminants / William C. Sonzogni and Wayland R. Swain -- 2. Contaminants research and surveillance - a biological approach / Harvey Shear -- 3. Atmospheric inputs of chlorinated hydrocarbons to the Great Lakes / Thomas J. Murphy -- 4. Deposition of airborne metals into the Great Lakes: an evaluation of past and present estimates -- 5. Atmospheric inputs and the dynamics of trace elements in Lake Michigan / Thomas Tisue and Donald Fingleton -- 6. The surface microlayer and its role in contaminants distribution in Lake Michigan / Robert M. Owen and Philip A. Meyers -- 7. Petroleum contaminants in the Great Lakes / Philip A. Meyers -- 8. Toxaphene in the Great Lakes / Clifford P. Rice and Marlene S. Evans -- 9. Distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the Great Lakes / Brian J. Eadie -- 10. Cycling of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in the Great Lakes ecosystem / Douglas J. Hallett and Ronald W. Brecher --^
• 11. Organic pollutants in Lake Ontario / William M. J. Strachan and Clay J. Edwards -- 12. Microcontaminants in Wisconsin's coastal zone / Mary E. Pariso, James R. St. Amant, and Thomas B. Sheffy -- 13. PCB contamination in the Great Lakes / Milagros S. Simmons -- 14. Polychlorinated biphenyls in seven species of Lake Michigan fish, 1971-1981 / James R. St. Amant, Mary E. Pariso, and Thomas B. Sheffy -- 15. Partitioning of toxic trace metals between solid and liquid phases in the Great Lakes / Kenneth R. Rygwelski -- 16. Lead contamination of the Great Lakes and its potential effects on aquatic biota / Peter V. Hodson, D. Michael Whittle, Paul T.S. Wong, Uwe Borgman, Richard L. Thomas, Y.K. Chau, Jerome O. Nriagu, and Douglas J. Hallett -- 17. Selenium contamination of the Great Lakes and its potential effects on aquatic biota / Peter V. Hodson, D. Michael Whittle, and Douglas J. Hallet -- 18. Inorganic contaminants in Lake Michigan sediments / Richard A. Cahill and N.F. Shimp --^
• Using the Herring Gull to monitor levels and effects of organochlorine contamination in the Canadian Great Lakes / P. Mineaou, G.A. Fox, R.J. Norstrom, D.V. Weseloh, D.J. Hallett, and J.A. Ellenton -- Appendix: The Great Lakes water quality agreement of 1978.

ISBN

0471890871 :

LCCN

^^^83016689^

OCLC

9853573

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library