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Mercury in the bottom sediments of the marginal filter of the Razdol’naya River, Amur Bay

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Original Russian Text © D.M. Polyakov, K.I. Aksentov, M.V. Ivanov, 2008, published in Geokhimiya, 2008, No. 6, pp. 666–673.

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Polyakov, D.M., Aksentov, K.I. & Ivanov, M.V. Mercury in the bottom sediments of the marginal filter of the Razdol’naya River, Amur Bay. Geochem. Int. 46, 614–621 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016702908060074

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