Acid sulphate soil disturbance and metals in groundwater: Implications for human exposure through home grown produce

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 100-105

  Hinwood, Andrea Lee ^a   Horwitz, Pierre ^a   Appleyard, Steve ^b   Barton, Caroline ^a   Wajrak, Magda ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of Environment ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Acid sulphate soils; Exposure; Groundwater; Heavy metals

Indexed keywords

ACID SULPHATE SOIL; BORE WATER; EXPOSURE; SOIL DISTURBANCE;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEAVY METALS; METALS; OXIDATION; SOILS;

GROUNDWATER;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; GROUND WATER; HEAVY METAL; IRON; LEAD; METAL DERIVATIVE; SELENIUM; SULFATE;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEAVY METAL; IRON SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXTRACTION; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OXIDATION; SOIL; WATER SAMPLING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRUIT; GARDENING; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; MALE; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; PLANTS, EDIBLE; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; SULFURIC ACID ESTERS; VEGETABLES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33646411488     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2005.11.014     Document Type: Article

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