Heavy metal contamination of agricultural soils and stream sediments near a copper mine in Tongling, People's Republic of China

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 862-869

  Wang, C ^a,b   Shen, Z ^b   Li, X ^c   Luo, C ^b   Chen, Y ^b   Yang, H ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; HEAVY METAL; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRACTIONATION; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MINING; SEDIMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

AGRICULTURE; CHINA; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METALS, HEAVY; MINING; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 11144324947     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-004-0506-x     Document Type: Article

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