Heavy metal contamination in street dust and roadside soil along the major national road in Kavala's region, Greece

Geoderma

Volumn 151, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 257-263

  Christoforidis, Achilleas ^a   Stamatis, Nikolaos ^b  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Heavy metals; Pollution; Roadside soil; Street dust

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC ABSORPTION; CONTROL SITES; GREECE; HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION; INDUSTRIAL AREA; MEAN VALUES; NATIONAL ROADS; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; ROADSIDE SOIL; ROADSIDE SOILS; SOIL SAMPLE; SPECTRO-PHOTOMETRIC METHOD; STREET DUST;

AIR POLLUTION; CHROMIUM; DUST; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; MERCURY (METAL); METALS; PETROCHEMICAL PLANTS; ROADSIDES; SOILS; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ZINC;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; DUST; HEAVY METAL; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; KAVALA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 67449164338     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.04.016     Document Type: Article

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