Tracing the spatial distribution and mobility of metal/metalloid contaminants in Oxisols in the vicinity of the Nkana copper smelter, Copperbelt province, Zambia

Geoderma

Volumn 164, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 73-84

  Ettler, Vojtěch ^a   Mihaljevič, Martin ^a   Kříbek, Bohdan ^b   Majer, Vladimír ^b   Šebek, Ondřej ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cu smelting; Metals and metalloids; Mobility; Oxisols; Pb isotopes; Zambia

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; BULK CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BULK CONCENTRATION; CONTINUOUS DEPOSITION; COPPER MINING; COPPERBELT; DEEP SOILS; DISPOSAL SITES; DISTRIBUTION AND MOBILITY; DISTRIBUTION OF METAL; EXCHANGEABLE FRACTION; INORGANIC CONTAMINANTS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC TRACING; LEAD ISOTOPE; METALLIC POLLUTION; OXISOLS; PB ISOTOPES; PENETRATION RATES; POLLUTION SOURCES; PREVAILING WINDS; QUADRUPOLE-BASED ICP-MS; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION PROCEDURE; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL PROFILES; SOIL SAMPLE; SOIL SYSTEMS; ZAMBIA;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTAMINATION; COPPER DEPOSITS; COPPER SMELTING; ISOTOPES; LEAD; LEAD SMELTING; SLAGS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TAILINGS DISPOSAL; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE INCINERATION;

COPPER;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOAVAILABILITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; EXTRACTION METHOD; HEAVY METAL; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAD ISOTOPE; MINE WASTE; MINING; MOBILITY; OXISOL; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SMELTING; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL PROFILE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOPSOIL; WASTE DISPOSAL; WIND DIRECTION;

COPPERBELT; ZAMBIA;

EID: 79959626141     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.05.014     Document Type: Article

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