Urban and rural limestone weathering; the contribution of dust to black crust formation

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 675-693

  Török, Ákos ^a   Licha, Tobias ^b   Simon, Klaus ^b   Siegesmund, Siegfried ^b  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b Geoscience Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric pollution; Dust; Gypsum; Lead; PAH; Stone decay

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; AQUEOUS EXTRACTS; ASH PARTICLES; ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLACK CRUSTS; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; GERMANY; GYPSUM CRYSTALS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HUNGARY; INDUSTRIAL AREA; LEAD CONCENTRATION; LEADED PETROL; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MICROFABRIC; MINERAL ASSOCIATIONS; MINERALOGICAL COMPOSITIONS; PAH; PARTICLE CONTENT; POLYAROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; STONE DECAY; STONE SAMPLES; SULPHATES; UNSATURATED CONDITION; URBAN AND RURAL AREAS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CARBONATE MINERALS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DUST; FLY ASH; GYPSUM; HYDROCARBONS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEAD; LIMESTONE; RURAL AREAS; SILICATE MINERALS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SURFACES; TRACE ELEMENTS; WEATHERING;

AIR POLLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CALCITE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; FLY ASH; GYPSUM; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; LIMESTONE; MINERALOGY; MONUMENT; PAH; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RURAL AREA; SULFATE; SURFACE WATER; TRACE ELEMENT; URBAN AREA;

GERMANY; HUNGARY;

EID: 79957854715     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-010-0737-6     Document Type: Article

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