Distribution and Contamination Assessment of Heavy Metals in Water and Soils from the College Town in the Pearl River Delta, China

Clean - Soil, Air, Water

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1167-1173

  Xiao, Rong ^a   Bai, Junhong ^a   Gao, Haifeng ^a   Wang, Junjing ^a   Huang, Laibin ^a   Liu, Peipei ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Construction; Environmental risk; Pollution; Wetland

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEMOLITION; DEPOSITION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HEAVY METAL; LEACHATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; URBAN POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION; WETLAND;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 84867876065     PISSN: 18630650     EISSN: 18630669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clen.201200016     Document Type: Article

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