Research advances in forensic diatom testing

• Main Authors: Yuanyuan Zhou (Author), Yongjie Cao (Author), Jiao Huang (Author), Kaifei Deng (Author), Kaijun Ma (Author), Tianye Zhang (Author), Liqin Chen (Author), Ji Zhang (Author), Ping Huang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Oxford University Press, 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In forensic practice, it is difficult to determine whether a dead body in the water resulted from drowning or from disposal after death. Diatom testing is currently an important supporting technique for the determination of death by drowning and of drowning sites, even though it is a time-consuming...