Metal concentrations in soils around the copper smelter and surrounding industrial complex of Port Kembla, NSW, Australia

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 325, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 113-127

  Martley, E ^a   Gulson, B L ^a   Pfeifer, H R ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Background levels; Chromium; Contamination; Copper; Lead; Port Kembla; Smelter; Soils; Zinc

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; COPPER COMPOUNDS; HEAVY METALS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SMELTING; SOILS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; COPPER SMELTER; EXTRACTABLE;

METALS;

ARSENIC; CHROMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; METAL; STEEL; ZINC;

CONTAMINATED LAND; HEAVY METAL; INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; SMELTING; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRIAL AREA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SMELTER; SOIL POLLUTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; PORT KEMBLA;

EID: 2442610444     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2003.11.012     Document Type: Article

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