Geostatistical assessment of the impact of world war i on the spatial occurrence of soil heavy metals

Ambio

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 417-424

  Meerschman, Eef ^a   Cockx, Liesbet ^a   Islam, Mohammad Monirul ^a   Meeuws, Fun ^a   Van Meirvenne, Marc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Soil heavy metals; Spatial variability; World War I

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL;

ARSENIC; CHROMIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; CORROSION; DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GEOSTATISTICS; LEAD; NICKEL; SANITATION; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL TEXTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPSOIL; WAR; WEAPON; ZINC;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; STATISTICAL MODEL; WAR;

AGRICULTURE; BELGIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS, HEAVY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WORLD WAR I;

EID: 79955897527     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-010-0104-6     Document Type: Article

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