Combined Chemical and Mineralogical Evidence for Heavy Metal Binding in Mining- and Smelting-Affected Alluvial Soils1 1 Project supported by the Higher Education Development Fund (FRVŠ) of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (No. 217/2005), the Czech Science Foundation (No. GACR 205/04/1292), and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.

Pedosphere

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 464-478

  VANEK A ^a   ETTLER, V ^b   GRYGAR, T ^c   BORUVKA L ^a   SEBEK O ^b   DRABEK O ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

alluvial soil; Fe and Mn oxides; heavy metals; mineralogy; mining

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HEAVY METAL; IRON OXIDE; METAL BINDING; MINERALOGY; MINING; SMELTING; SOIL POLLUTION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 45849122505     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(08)60037-5     Document Type: Article

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