Assessment of background levels of trace metals in water and soil from a remote region of Himalaya

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1243-1252

  Shah, Munir H ^a   Iqbal, Javed ^a   Shaheen, Nazia ^a   Khan, Nadeem ^a,c   Choudhary, Muhammad Aziz ^b   Akhter, Gulraiz ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b MIRPUR UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MUST   (Pakistan)

^c INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Background; Cluster analysis; Enrichment; Himalaya; Metal; Soil; Water

Indexed keywords

ACID EXTRACTS; BACKGROUND; BACKGROUND LEVEL; CORRELATION STUDIES; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; HIMALAYAS; MULTIVARIATE CLUSTER ANALYSIS; NATURAL PROCESS; REMOTE REGIONS; SOIL SAMPLE; TRACE METAL; WATER AND SOIL SAMPLES; WATER EXTRACTS; WATER SAMPLES;

BLAST ENRICHMENT; CADMIUM; CALCIUM; CHROMIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LEAD; MANGANESE; METALS; SODIUM; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; WATER; ZINC;

COPPER;

CADMIUM; CALCIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; LITHIUM; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; TRACE METAL; ZINC;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL QUALITY; TRACE METAL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; GEOCHEMISTRY; PAKISTAN; RURAL AREA; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; URBAN AREA; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FRESH WATER; METALS; PAKISTAN; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

HIMALAYAS;

EID: 84857368452     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2036-4     Document Type: Article

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