Mobility of metals and metalloids in a multi-element contaminated soil 20 years after cessation of the pollution source activity

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 254-261

  Clemente, Rafael ^a   Dickinson, Nicholas M ^a   Lepp, Nicholas W ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antimony; Arsenic; Heavy metals; Soil pore water; Temporal change

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CADMIUM; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; COPPER; COPPER ALLOYS; DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; IRON; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; METALS; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLLUTION; SOILS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER; WATER POLLUTION; ZINC;

ACIDIC SOILS; CONTAMINATED SOILS; DIFFERENTIAL MOBILITY; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON (DOC); ECOTOXICOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT; FIELD CONDITIONS; MULTI ELEMENTS; ORGANIC MATTER (OM); POLLUTION SOURCES; PORE WATERS; PROTECTION OF GROUNDWATER; RESIDUAL CONTAMINANTS; SURFACE HORIZONS; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; ANTIMONY; CADMIUM; COPPER; GROUND WATER; IRON OXIDE; LEAD; METAL; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

ACID SOIL; ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ELEMENT MOBILITY; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POREWATER; SOIL POLLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; ECOTOXICITY; FOREST; SOIL ACIDITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION;

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HAZARDOUS WASTE; LEAD; METALLURGY; METALS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TIME; TREES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZINC;

EID: 43049085497     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.11.024     Document Type: Article

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