Bricks as historical record of heavy metals fallout: Study on copper accumulation in Agra soils since 1910

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 271-278

  Shrivastav, Rohit ^a   Mathur, Sanjay Kumar ^a   Shrivastav, Shobhit ^a,b   Shrivastav, M M ^a   Das, Sahab ^a   Prakash, Satya ^a  

^a DAYALBAGH EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; BRICK; BRICKMAKING; COPPER; GEOCHEMISTRY; ICE; PEAT; SEDIMENTS; SOILS;

AQUATIC SEDIMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC HEAVY METAL POLLUTION; GEOCHEMICAL MONITOR; ICE DEPOSITS;

HEAVY METALS;

CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; NICKEL; RAIN; ZINC;

ACID RAIN; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DRY DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PH; SOIL; TECHNIQUE;

COPPER; GEOCHEMICAL MONITOR; HEAVY METAL; HISTORICAL RECORD; POLLUTION;

INDIA, AGRA;

EID: 0030131778     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00398872     Document Type: Article

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