Heavy metals as marine pollutantsMajor and trace elements occur naturally in the environment [26]. This natural occurrence of metals in the environment due to various particle sizes for instance, complicates assessments of contaminated marine sediments because measurable quantities of metals do not automatically infer anthropogenic enrichment [26]. In addition to
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