Assessment of the natural and anthropogenic sources of chemical elements in alluvial soils from the Drava River using multivariate statistical methods

Journal of Geochemical Exploration

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 278-289

  Šajn, Robert ^a   Halamić, Josip ^b   Peh, Zoran ^b   Galović, Lidija ^b   Alijagić, Jasminka ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

^b CROATIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Alluvial plains; Multivariate statistics; River terraces; The Drava River; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL PLAINS; ALLUVIAL SOIL; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; CROATIANS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMICAL BACKGROUND; INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS; LEAD MINING; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL METHOD; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; RIVER TERRACES; RIVER WATERSHEDS; SAMPLING SITE; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; THE DRAVA RIVER;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ANTIMONY; BARIUM; CERIUM; CHEMICALS; CHROMIUM; LANDFORMS; LEAD; LEAD SMELTING; LITHOLOGY; MOLYBDENUM; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NIOBIUM; RATING; RUBIDIUM; SCANDIUM; SOILS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TANTALUM; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZINC; ZINC SMELTING;

RIVERS;

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RIVER TERRACE; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBSOIL; TOPSOIL;

DRAU RIVER; DRAU VALLEY;

EID: 80051701169     PISSN: 03756742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2011.06.009     Document Type: Article

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