Assessing heavy metal pollution in the surface soils of a region that had undergone three decades of intense industrialization and urbanization

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 6150-6159

  Hu, Yuanan ^a   Liu, Xueping ^a,b   Bai, Jinmei ^a   Shih, Kaimin ^c   Zeng, Eddy Y ^a   Cheng, Hefa ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Heavy metal; Land use type; Multivariate analysis; Pollution assessment; Potential ecological risk; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENRICHMENT; HEAVY METAL; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LAND USE CHANGE; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84880840074     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-1668-z     Document Type: Article

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