Heavy metals of the Tibetan top soils: Level, source, spatial distribution, temporal variation and risk assessment

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3362-3370

  Sheng, Jiujiang ^a   Wang, Xiaoping ^a   Gong, Ping ^a   Tian, Lide ^a   Yao, Tandong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Heavy metal; Multivariate statistics; Risk assessment; Soil; Tibetan Plateau; Trace element

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; HEAVY METAL;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HEAVY METAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPSOIL; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METALS, HEAVY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TIBET;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84865570836     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-012-0857-5     Document Type: Article

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