Studies on the chromium concentrations in topsoils and subsoils of two rapidly industrialized cities in the Yangtze River Delta in east China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1239-1247

  Wu, Chunfa ^a,b   Luo, Yongming ^a   Huang, Biao ^a   Zhang, Haibo ^a   Wang, Huoyan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b YANTAI INSTITUTE OF COASTAL ZONE RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Chromium; One way analysis of variance; Paired samples t test; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS; CHROMIUM CONCENTRATION; CO-KRIGING; CR CONCENTRATION; EAST CHINA; EFFECTIVE RANGE; EXTRINSIC FACTORS; KRIGING; NATURAL FACTORS; ONE-WAY ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; SEMIVARIOGRAMS; SOIL FORMATIONS; SPATIAL DEPENDENCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION MAP; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; T-TESTS; TOPSOIL SAMPLES; YANGTZE RIVER DELTA;

AGRICULTURE; CHROMIUM; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOILS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CHROMIUM; GEOACCUMULATION; KRIGING; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBSOIL; TOPSOIL; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

CHANGSHU; CHINA; JIANGSU; YANGTZE DELTA; ZHANGJIAGANG;

EID: 77956488886     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-010-0447-0     Document Type: Article

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