Assessing soil quality using p-field simulation: Application to the Marrancos mining area, Portugal

Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Reis, Amélia Paula ^a   de Sousa, Antonio Jorge ^a   Ferreira da Silva, Eduardo ^b   Patinha, Carla ^b   Cardoso Fonseca, Edmundo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Arsenic contamination; Marrancos mine; Probability field simulation; Soil quality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; GOLD MINES; HEAVY METALS; POLLUTION; SOILS;

DELINEATION; SOIL QUALITY;

MINING;

ABANDONED MINE; ARSENIC; GEOSTATISTICS; GOLD; HEAVY METAL; KRIGING; PROBABILITY; SILVER; SOIL POLLUTION;

BRAGA [PORTUGAL]; EURASIA; EUROPE; MARRANCOS; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 3342875507     PISSN: 03717453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/037174504225004501     Document Type: Article

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