Assessment of Heavy Metal Accumulation in Urban Soil around Potash Industrial Site in the East of the Dead Sea and their Environmental Risks

Soil and Sediment Contamination

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 276-290

  Al Khashman, Omar Ali ^a  

^a AL HUSSEIN BIN TALAL UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Dead Sea; factor analysis; metal; potash industry; Soil pollution

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; ALKALINE PH; ANTHROPOGENIC ORIGIN; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; CR CONCENTRATION; CRUSTAL COMPOSITION; DEAD SEA; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; HEAVY METAL ACCUMULATION; HIGH CONCENTRATION; INDUSTRIAL SITES; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; METAL CONTAMINATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLLUTED SOILS; SOIL SURFACES; STUDY AREAS; TRAFFIC EMISSIONS; URBAN SOILS;

AGRICULTURE; ALKALINITY; CADMIUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBONATE MINERALS; CHROMIUM; CLAY MINERALS; COPPER; FACTOR ANALYSIS; LEAD; MANGANESE; METALS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PH EFFECTS; POTASH; QUARTZ; SOILS; ZINC;

SOIL POLLUTION;

EID: 84859483252     PISSN: 15320383     EISSN: 15497887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15320383.2011.609358     Document Type: Article

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