Estuaries of the south-west region of Western Australia: an assessment of sediment quality  

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Fredericks, D. | Radke, L. | Heggie, D.

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Eutrophication has become a growing concern for lakes, estuaries and other coastal waters in southwestern Western Australia since about 1945 when the application of phosphatic fertilisers was increased to compensate for nutrient deficient soils (Hodgkin and Hamilton, 1993). This study reports on a number of bulk sediment parameters (e.g. TOC, TN, TP & TS, d13C, and TOC/TN, TOC/TP C/S and Mg:Fe ratios) that have been measured for a suite of estuaries from southwestern WA. The data are interpreted in terms of sources of organic matter to-, and climatic, geomorphic, anthropogenic and biotic controls on sediment concentrations of C, P and N at southwestern Australian sites. The bulk sediment characteristics of the WA estuaries are also compared to those from a large number of coastal waterways from around Australia.

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• GA PublicationRecord

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• coasts

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• geochemistry

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• marine

• AU-WA

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2001-01-01T00:00:00

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