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Original Articles

Profiles and Sources of PAHs in Sediments from an Open-Pit Mining Area in the Peruvian Andes

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Pages 429-451 | Received 21 Oct 2014, Accepted 31 Dec 2014, Published online: 14 Aug 2015

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