Total and available heavy metal concentrations in soils of the Thriassio plain (Greece) and assessment of soil pollution indexes

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 6751-6766

  Massas, Ioannis ^a   Kalivas, Dionisios ^a   Ehaliotis, Constantions ^a   Gasparatos, Dionisios ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Enrichment factor; Geoaccumulation index; Heavy metals; Metal availability; Soil; Soil pollution

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; DIFFERENT ORIGINS; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; GEO-ACCUMULATION INDEX; HEAVY METAL CONCENTRATION; LARGE-SCALE MANUFACTURING; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; SOIL CONTAMINATION;

COPPER; HEAVY METALS; LEAD; MANGANESE; METALS; NICKEL; SOILS; ZINC;

SOIL POLLUTION;

BARIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; ZINC;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GEOACCUMULATION INDEX; HEAVY METAL; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; AVAILABILITY RATIO; BIOAVAILABILITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENRICHMENT FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GEOACCUMULATION INDEX; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREECE; PARAMETERS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTION INDEX; SOIL PROPERTY;

AGRICULTURE; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GREECE; METALS, HEAVY; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE;

EQUUS ASINUS;

EID: 84879838644     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-013-3062-1     Document Type: Article

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