Elemental composition of Tibetan Plateau top soils and its effect on evaluating atmospheric pollution transport

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 2261-2265

  Li, Chaoliu ^a   Kang, Shichang ^a   Zhang, Qianggong ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Dust; Elements; Enrichment factors; Tibetan Plateau; Top soil

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DUST AEROSOLS; EFFECTIVE INDEX; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; ELEMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS; ELEMENTS; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; LONG DISTANCES; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MIDLATITUDES; SOIL SAMPLE; SOURCE REGION; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TOP SOIL; TOP SOILS; UPPER CONTINENTAL CRUST;

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DUST; SOILS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; BERYLLIUM; BORON; CALCIUM; CESIUM; COBALT; COPPER; GALLIUM; IRON; LEAD; LITHIUM; MAGNESIUM; NICKEL; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; TITANIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; URANIUM; ZINC;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; ENRICHMENT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SOIL CHEMISTRY; TOPSOIL; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHINA; MINERAL DUST; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTANT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METALS, RARE EARTH; PARTICLE SIZE; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TIBET; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 68649095629     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.03.035     Document Type: Article

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