Heavy metal contamination in riverine soils upstream and downstream of a hydroelectric dam on the lancang river, China

Environmental Engineering Science

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 941-946

  Bai, Junhong ^a   Cui, Baoshan ^a   Xu, Xiaofeng ^b   Ding, Qiuyi ^a   Gao, Haifeng ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contamination index; Downstream; Heavy metals; Riverine soils; Upstream

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; BACKGROUND VALUE; CONTAMINATION INDEX; CONTAMINATION LEVELS; CONTAMINATION SOURCES; DOWNSTREAM; DOWNSTREAM AREAS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HEAVY METAL CONCENTRATION; HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; INTEGRATED CONTAMINATION INDEX; LANCANG RIVER; QUANTITATIVE INDICES; RIVERINE SOILS; SOIL SAMPLE; TOPSOIL SAMPLES; UPSTREAM;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARSENIC; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; CONTAMINATION; DAMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; METALS; NICKEL; RIVERS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; ZINC;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; NICKEL; ZINC;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROPOWER; RIVER; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL QUALITY;

EID: 67249098989     PISSN: 10928758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ees.2008.0136     Document Type: Article

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