Contamination assessment and potential sources of heavy metals and other elements in sediments of a basin impacted by 500 years of mining in central Mexico
Luisa Fernanda Rueda-Garzón, Raúl Miranda‐Avilés, Alejandro Carrillo-Chávez, María Jesús Puy‐Alquiza, Jorge Luis Morales-Martinez, Gabriela Ana Zanor
Topics & Concepts
Structural basinTailingsGeologySedimentGeochemistryWeatheringOverbankContaminationSmeltingEnvironmental scienceMining engineeringHydrology (agriculture)Sedimentary depositional environmentGeomorphologyEcologyGeotechnical engineeringChemistryMaterials scienceOrganic chemistryBiologyMetallurgyHeavy metals in environmentGeochemistry and Geologic MappingGeochemistry and Elemental Analysis