Total petroleum hydrocarbons and trace heavy metals in roadside soils along the Lagos-Badagry expressway, Nigeria

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 167, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 625-630

  Adeniyi, Adeleke A ^a   Owoade, Olabisi J ^a  

^a LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Contamination; Roadside soil; Total petroleum hydrocarbons; Trace heavy metals

Indexed keywords

ANALYZED ELEMENTS; BUS STOP; CLEAN UP; CONTROL SITES; COPPER CONCENTRATION; MEAN VALUES; MINERAL ACID; NIGERIA; ROADSIDE SOIL; ROADSIDE SOILS; SOIL METALS; SOIL SAMPLE; SOXHLET EXTRACTION; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TOTAL PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS; TRACE HEAVY METALS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BUS TERMINALS; CADMIUM; COPPER; HYDROCARBONS; METALS; PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY; ROADSIDES; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE; HEAVY METAL; HYDROCARBON; PETROLEUM; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIGESTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEAVY METAL; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NIGERIA; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL POLLUTION; TRAFFIC; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SOIL POLLUTANT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROCARBONS; METALS, HEAVY; NIGERIA; PETROLEUM; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TRANSPORTATION;

NIGERIA; OGUN;

EID: 77956186576     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-1078-3     Document Type: Article

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