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The Ecotoxicology of Mine Waste Contamination at Different Levels of Biological Organization in the Methow River Vally, Okanogan County, Washington
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| Title |
The Ecotoxicology of Mine Waste Contamination at Different Levels of Biological Organization in the Methow River Vally, Okanogan County, Washington
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| Creator |
Peplow, Dan
Edmonds, Robert |
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| Subject |
contamination
river |
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| Description |
A study of mine-waste contamination effects on Methow River habitat on the eastern
slopes of the north Cascade Mountains in Washington state, U.S.A., revealed impacts at
ecosystem, community, population, individual, tissue, and cellular levels. Ore deposits in the
area were mined for gold, silver, copper and zinc until the early 1950’s, but the mines are
now inactive. An above-and-below-mine approach was used to compare potentially
impacted to control sites. The concentrations of eleven trace...
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| Publisher |
Center for Water and Watershed Studies
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| Date |
2010-12-30T22:03:19Z
2010-12-30T22:03:19Z 2003-05-15 |
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| Type |
Article
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| Identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/16332
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| Language |
en_US
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