Assessing soil heavy metal pollution in the water-level-fluctuation zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir, China

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 191, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 366-372

  Ye, Chen ^a,b   Li, Siyue ^a   Zhang, Yulong ^a,b   Zhang, Quanfa ^a  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Enrichment factor; Heavy metal; Source apportionment; Source identification; Submergence

Indexed keywords

DOMESTIC SEWAGE; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HEAVY METAL POLLUTION; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; PRIMARY POLLUTANTS; SOIL SAMPLE; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; SOURCE IDENTIFICATION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUBMERGENCE; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR; TRAFFIC EXHAUSTS;

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; EFFLUENTS; HEAVY WATER; INDUSTRIAL WASTES; INDUSTRY; LEAD; LINEAR REGRESSION; MANGANESE; MERCURY (METAL); METALS; POLLUTION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEWAGE; ZINC;

COPPER;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY; ORGANIC CARBON;

HEAVY METAL; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; SHIPPING; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBMERGENCE; TRAFFIC EMISSION; WATER LEVEL;

ARTICLE; CHINA; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL SOIL VARIABILITY; SUMMER; WASTE WATER; WINTER;

CHINA; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; METALS, HEAVY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CHINA; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR;

EID: 79957756366     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: 18733336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.04.090     Document Type: Article

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