Heavy metal contamination of soils around a Pb-Zn smelter in Bukowno, Poland

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 11-16

  Verner, James F ^a   Ramsey, Michael H ^a   Helios Rybicka, Edeltrauda ^b   Jêdrzejczyk, Barbara ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; HEAVY METAL; SMELTING; SOIL; LEAD; METAL CONTAMINATION; MINING; ZINC;

POLAND, BUKOWNO; POLAND, SILESIA, BUKOWNO;

EID: 0029663845     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0883-2927(95)00093-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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