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Heavy metal accumulation in sediments is important even at low levels due to their irresolvable character and harmful effects. Therefore, contamination of creeks, especially their sediments, is highly important for scientific communities. This study investigates the relationship between heavy metal accumulation and some physicochemical parameters of sediments (pH, EC, calcium carbonate, texture, specific gravity, density, porosity and percentage of organic matter) in a stretch of Musa Creek beaches. The results showed that the studied sediments are extremely salty and have slight variations in terms of pH. Although there are mostly clay-sized sediments in the studied area, their mineralogical composition contains calcite with smaller amounts of dolomite, aragonite and halite minerals. The correlation between each of the parameters and heavy metal concentration was modeled using OLS regression. Cr, Ni, Zn and Pb concentrations are positively correlated with each other and inversely correlated with Cd. The accumulation of heavy metals is directly related to parameters such as EC, organic matter, clay and silt, specific gravity and porosity; it is negatively related to calcium carbonate, sand and density parameters. Owing to slight variations, the pH parameter lacks any significant correlation with heavy metal concentrations.
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Geological Survey & Mineral Explorations of Iran (GSI) supported this research; thus, the authors appreciate and thank to the cooperation of that organization to further the aims of the research.
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Ghazanfari Shabankareh, M., Amanipoor, H., Battaleb-Looie, S. et al. Statistical modeling the effect of sediment physicochemical properties on the concentration of heavy metal (case study: Musa Creek, SW Iran). Environ Earth Sci 77, 101 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-018-7289-6
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