Surface soil geochemistry for environmental assessment in Kavala area, northern Greece

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 216, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 141-152

  Papastergios, Georgios ^a   Filippidis, Anestis ^a   Fernandez Turiel, Jose Luis ^b   Gimeno, Domingo ^c   Sikalidis, Constantinos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Background; Environmental assessment; Geochemistry; GIS; Greece; Soil; Threshold

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GIS; GREECE; THRESHOLD;

BARIUM; CESIUM; DATA VISUALIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; GALLIUM; GERMANIUM; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LEAD; MANGANESE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RATING; RUBIDIUM; SOILS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIN; TRACE ELEMENTS; VISUALIZATION; ZIRCONIUM;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY;

ALUMINUM; ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; BARIUM; BORON; CADMIUM; CALCIUM; CESIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; GALLIUM; GERMANIUM; IRON; LANTHANUM; LITHIUM; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; MERCURY; MOLYBDENUM; POTASSIUM; RUBIDIUM; SELENIUM; SILICON; SILVER; STRONTIUM; TIN; YTTRIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GIS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOCHEMISTRY; GREECE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROBABILITY; ROCK; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL SOIL VARIABILITY; SURFACE SOIL;

EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; GREECE; KAVALA;

EID: 79951947501     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-010-0522-x     Document Type: Article

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