Lead contamination adjacent to roadways in trujillo, venezuela

Professional Geographer

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 331-341

  Newsome, Tracy ^a   Aranguren, Freddy ^a   Brinkman, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lead; Soil; Traffic volume

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004987010     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00081     Document Type: Article

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