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Physico-Chemical Trends in the Sediments of Agbede Wetlands, Nigeria

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rmzmag-2017-0003 | Journal eISSN: 1854-7400
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Language: English, Slovenian
Submitted on: Nov 18, 2016
Accepted on: Feb 13, 2017
Published online: Jun 23, 2017
Published in print: Jun 23, 2017
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Keywords:
sediment,
physico-chemical character­istics,
pond,
stream,
principal component analysis,
watershed
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Databases and data mining,
Geosciences,
Geodesy,
Geology and mineralogy,
Materials sciences,
Materials characterization and properties

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