Assessment of heavy metal pollution from a Fe-smelting plant in urban river sediments using environmental magnetic and geochemical methods

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 159, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3057-3070

  Zhang, Chunxia ^a   Qiao, Qingqing ^a   Piper, John D A ^b   Huang, Baochun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; Environmental magnetism; Heavy metals; Hunan; Industrial plant; River sediments

Indexed keywords

CHINA; COARSE-GRAINED; ENVIRONMENTAL MAGNETISM; GEOCHEMICAL METHODS; HEAVY METAL POLLUTION; HUNAN; HUNAN PROVINCE; INDUSTRIAL CITY; MAGNETIC CONCENTRATION; MAGNETIC METHODS; MAGNETIC PROXIES; NONMAGNETICS; POLLUTION LOADS; RIVER SEDIMENTS; SATURATION ISOTHERMAL REMANENT MAGNETIZATIONS; SOILS AND SEDIMENTS; URBAN RIVER; WATER TRANSPORT;

ALGEBRA; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY WATER; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; LEAD; MAGNETISM; METALS; MOLYBDENUM; POLLUTION; RIVERS; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SMELTING; SOIL TESTING;

RIVER POLLUTION;

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; IRON; LEAD; MOLYBDENUM; SURFACE WATER; VANADIUM; ZINC;

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; HEAVY METAL; IRON; MAGNETIC METHOD; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SMELTING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL MAGNETIC METHOD; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETISM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER; SEDIMENT; URBAN AREA; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TRANSPORT;

CHINA; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; MAGNETS; METALLURGY; METALS, HEAVY; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CHINA; HUNAN;

SPHERULES;

EID: 80052339392     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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