A review of heavy metal contaminations in urban soils, urban road dusts and agricultural soils from China

Microchemical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 99-107

  Wei, Binggan ^a,b   Yang, Linsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Agricultural soils; China; Heavy metal; Urban road dusts; Urban soils

Indexed keywords

EID: 71649106555     PISSN: 0026265X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2009.09.014     Document Type: Review

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