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Arsenic concentrations in estuarine sediments from England and Wales range over three orders of magnitude. The highest concentrations, up to 2500 μg/g, occur in the sediments of estuaries in south west England associated with past or present metalliferous mining activity. Strong correlations exist between arsenic and iron in 1 N-HC1 extracts of different estuarine sediments. The As/Fe ratio in those estuaries not contaminated with mine wastes is 11 × 10 −4 , increasing to 190 × 10 —4 in metalliferous sediments.
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W.J. Langston (1980) studied this question.
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