Heavy Metals in Sediments Core Along ���Shatt AL-Arab Estuary

This study including determination the concentrations of eight heavy metals ( Pb Ni Co Cr Zn Co Cd and Fe) in exchangeable and residual phase by using Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (FAAS) for sediment core at six stations along Shatt Al-Arab estuary they are: ‎ ( Al-Qurna Al-Deer Al-Qarma Al-Ashar Abu-Alkasib and Al-Fao ). The Total Organic Carbon (TOC%) and Grain Size were also analyzed. Recent fauna ‎has been Diagnosed in these core samples we found ‎Foraminefra Ostracoda and ‎a lot of Mollusca with deformation shell Indicating influenced by Heavy metals ‎pollution ‎therefore it could be used as ‎pollution indicator. ‎