The detection of roadside pollution of rapidly growing city in arid region using the magnetic proxies

Environmental Geology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-29

  El Hasan, Tayel ^a  

^a MUTAH UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic; Magnetic proxies; Roadside pollution; Traffic density

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETISM; PARTICLE SIZE; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION;

MAGNETIC PEAKS; MAGNETIC PROXIES; METALLIC POLLUTION; ROADSIDE POLLUTION; TRAFFIC DENSITY;

POLLUTION DETECTION;

ARID REGION; DETECTION METHOD; HEAVY METAL; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL SURVEY; TOPOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC EMISSION; WIND DIRECTION;

EID: 38849142622     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-0789-4     Document Type: Article

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