@article{article_477463, title={A Review of Sediment Contamination Assessment Methods}, journal={Turkish Journal of Maritime and Marine Sciences}, volume={1}, pages={7–17}, year={2015}, author={Balık, İsmet and Tunca, Evren}, keywords={Contamination factor, Sediment}, abstract={The right way to reveal the anthropogenic heavy metal accumulation in sediments is the most important issue in understanding the inorganic pollution in aquatic ecosystems. Therefore, the determination of anthropogenic sourced metal input in sediment and the toxic effect to all the ecosystems is extremely important. To determine these entries and effect, many methods have been developed and lots of limit values have been determined. This study performed aims to demonstrate thetoxic effect and risk values of human induced inorganic pollution moreaccurately, precision and detailed by collecting many different methodstogether. Thus, the most commonly used methods are grouped according to the similarities in the study. Therefore, it was provided to reveal the current situation of the study area the most truest and easilyway by the researchers to select the most appropriate method. In addition,new studies to be carried out, it can be envisaged the time and financial loses to be perevented while providing to plan according to the classifications used here.Keywords: Pollution, Contamination, Contamination factor, Sediment}, number={1}, publisher={Ordu University}