Baseline concentrations of trace elements in residential soils from Southeastern Missouri

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 140, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 69-81

  Ikem, Abua ^a   Campbell, Marjorie ^a   Nyirakabibi, Isabelle ^a   Garth, Jimmie ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; Principal Component Analysis (PCA); Residential soil; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

FRACTIONATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TOXIC MATERIALS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

BASELINE CONCENTRATIONS; MEAN ELEMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS; RESIDENTIAL SOIL; TOXIC ELEMENTS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; BERYLLIUM; CADMIUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY; MINERAL; NICKEL; ORGANIC MATTER; SILICON DIOXIDE; TRACE ELEMENT; VANADIUM; ZINC;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; DATA SET; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REMEDIATION; SOIL CHEMISTRY; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; CLAY; FRACTIONATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PH MEASUREMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL POLLUTION; UNITED STATES;

ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; MISSOURI; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TRACE ELEMENTS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

MISSOURI; NEW MADRID COUNTY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41749084165     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-9848-2     Document Type: Article

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