Heavy metals fractionation and multivariate statistical techniques to evaluate the environmental risk in soils of Huelva Township (SW Iberian Peninsula)

Journal of Geochemical Exploration

Volumn 119-120, Issue , 2012, Pages 32-43

  Guillén, Marco Tulio ^a   Delgado, Joaquín ^a   Albanese, Stefano ^b   Nieto, José Miguel ^a   Lima, Annamaria ^b   De Vivo, Benedetto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

BCR sequential extraction; Ecological risk indexes; Huelva city; Iberian Pyrite Belt; Multivariate statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ANTHROPOGENIC CONTRIBUTION; ECOLOGICAL RISKS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK INDICES; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; HUELVA CITY; HUELVA ESTUARY; HUMAN HEALTH; IBERIAN PYRITE BELT; INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES; INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX; METALLIC CONTENT; METALLIC POLLUTION; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; NATURAL SOURCES; OPERATIONAL SCHEMES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; REMEDIATION MEASURES; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION METHOD; SOLUBLE FRACTION; STUDY AREAS; SW IBERIAN PENINSULA; URBAN WASTES;

AGRICULTURE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; HEALTH RISKS; LEAD; POLLUTION; POSITIVE IONS;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

ACCUMULATION; ACID MINE DRAINAGE; BIOAVAILABILITY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FRACTIONATION; HEAVY METAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SALTMARSH; SOIL POLLUTION;

ANDALUCIA; HUELVA [ANDALUCIA]; HUELVA ESTUARY; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SPAIN;

EID: 84864377774     PISSN: 03756742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2012.06.009     Document Type: Article

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