Toxicological Profile for Arsenic (Update)
Toxicological Profile for Arsenic (Update)

Author: Selene Chou

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2010-08

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1437930689

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Characterizes the toxicologic and adverse health effects for arsenic, which has been found in many sites targeted for long-term fed. cleanup activities. Contents: (1) The examination, summary, and interpretation of available toxicologic info. and epidemiologic evaluations on arsenic to ascertain the levels of significant human exposure for the substance and the associated chronic health effects; (2) A determination of whether adequate info. on the health effects of arsenic is available to determine levels of exposure that present a significant risk to human health of chronic health effects; and (3) Identification of toxicologic testing needed to identify the types or levels of exposure that may present significant risk of adverse health effects in humans. Illus.

Environmental Sedimentology
Environmental Sedimentology

Author: Chris Perry

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-03-12

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 1444309005

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Environmental Sedimentology provides a comprehensive introduction to this rapidly expanding field which addresses the functioning and dynamics of contemporary sediment systems and how these systems respond to a range of both natural and anthropogenically-induced disturbance events. considers a range of sedimentary environments; mountain and upland, fluvial, lacustrine, arid, urban, deltaic and estuarine, temperate coastal, tropical coastal, and continental shelf aspects of sediment management and remediation are also considered as are the potential impacts of on-going and future climatic and environmental change Readership: advanced level undergraduates in earth science, environmental science and physical geography, and graduate students in the earth and environmental sciences with an interest in contemporary sediment systems