Heavy metal contamination of agricultural soils around a chromite mine in Vietnam

Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 344-356

  Kien, Chu N ^a   Noi, Nguyen V ^b   Son, Le T ^b   Ngoc, Ha M ^b   Tanaka, Sota ^c   Nishina, Takuro ^d   IWasaki, Kozo ^d  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contamination; Heavy metal; Mine; Soil; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953222354     PISSN: 00380768     EISSN: 17470765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0765.2010.00451.x     Document Type: Article

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