Ambient trace element background concentrations in soils and their use in risk assessment

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 4622-4632

  Diez M ^a   Simon M ^b   Martin F ^c   Dorronsoro, C ^c   Garcia I ^b   Van Gestel, C A M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ambient background concentration; Cumulative frequency distribution curve; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

ALFISOLS; AMBIENT BACKGROUND CONCENTRATION; ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; BACKGROUND CONCENTRATION; CARBONATE MATERIALS; CONTAMINATED SITES; CUMULATIVE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION; CUMULATIVE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION CURVE; ELEMENTS IN SOIL; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; PARENT MATERIALS; SITE-SPECIFIC; TOXICITY ASSESSMENT; VIBRIO FISCHERI; WEATHERED SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; ARSENIC; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHROMIUM; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; IRON MINES; LEAD; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MINING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SOILS; TRACE ANALYSIS; ZINC;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ARSENIC; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; NICKEL; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

ALFISOL; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENTISOL; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; OUTLIER; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL CHEMISTRY; TOXICITY; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MINING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SPAIN; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPAIN; TOXICITY TESTS; TRACE ELEMENTS; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRANADA [ANDALUCIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 67349125902     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.05.012     Document Type: Article

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