Arsenic background concentrations in surface soils of kavala area, northern Greece

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 209, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 323-331

  Papastergios, Georgios ^a   Fernandez Turiel, Jose Luis ^b   Georgakopoulos, Andreas ^a   Gimeno, Domingo ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Background; Environment; Geochemistry; Greece; Surface soil

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; BACKGROUND; BACKGROUND CONCENTRATION; BACKGROUND ENVIRONMENT; BACKGROUND VALUE; BASELINE VALUES; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; GEOCHEMICAL BACKGROUND; GEOCHEMICAL MAPS; GEOMETRIC MEAN; GEOMETRIC STANDARD DEVIATIONS; GIS SOFTWARE; GRAIN SIZE; LOG-NORMAL; NORTHERN GREECE; Q-Q PLOT; SOIL SAMPLE; STUDY AREAS; SURFACE SOIL;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; GEOCHEMISTRY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SOILS;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; NITRIC ACID;

ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GIS; MAPPING; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL SURFACE;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACTION; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GREECE; INDUSTRIAL AREA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARTICLE SIZE; PROBABILITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SURFACE SOIL;

EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; GREECE; KAVALA;

EID: 77952161401     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-009-0201-y     Document Type: Article

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