Environmental geochemical mapping of Huelva municipality soils (SW Spain) as a tool to determine background and baseline values

Journal of Geochemical Exploration

Volumn 109, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 59-69

  Guillén, Marco Tulio ^a   Delgado, Joaquín ^a   Albanese, Stefano ^b   Nieto, José Miguel ^a   Lima, Annamaria ^b   De Vivo, Benedetto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Background values; Baseline values; Geochemical mapping; GIS GeoDAS; Tinto Odiel estuary

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND VALUE; BASELINE VALUES; GEOCHEMICAL MAPPING; GIS-GEODAS; TINTO-ODIEL ESTUARY;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; ESTUARIES; EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; HEALTH RISKS; MAPPING; MAPS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL SURVEYS; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZINC;

SOILS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CARTOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN UNION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GIS; MAPPING; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL PROFILE; TRACE ELEMENT;

ANDALUCIA; HUELVA [ANDALUCIA]; ODIEL ESTUARY; SPAIN; TINTO ESTUARY;

EID: 79955478659     PISSN: 03756742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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