Defining soil geochemical baselines at small scales using geochemical common factors and soil organic matter as normalizers

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-14

  Wang, Zhigang ^a,b,d   Darilek, Jeremy Landon ^c   Zhao, Yongcun ^a   Huang, Biao ^a,d   Sun, Weixia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CHANGJIANG RIVER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^c SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Complex geologic setting; Factor analysis; Geochemical baseline; Heavy metals; Natural variation; Normalization procedures

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FACTOR ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TRACE METAL;

CHINA; JIANGSU;

EID: 78650417608     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-010-0269-4     Document Type: Article

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