Spatial pattern of arsenic and lead distributions in Jamaican soils

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 105-111

  Engel, B ^a   Lalor, G C ^a   Vutchkov, M K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Arsenic; GRASS GIS; Jamaica; Lead; Soil

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ARSENIC; EDXRF; GIS; GRASS; LEAD; PESTICIDE;

JAMAICA;

EID: 0030440239     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01771286     Document Type: Article

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