Assessment of trace elements in soils around Zaheerabad Town, Medak District, Andhra Pradesh, India

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4511-4524

  Sakram, G ^a   Machender, G ^a   Dhakate, Ratnakar ^b   Saxena, Praveen Raj ^a   Prasad, M Durga ^b  

^a OSMANIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Degree of contamination (Cdeg); Enrichment factor (EF); Index of geoaccumulation (Igeo)

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; CONTAMINATION; COPPER; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LEAD; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; TRACE ELEMENTS; X RAY SPECTROMETERS;

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; APPLICATION OF FERTILIZERS; DEGREE OF CONTAMINATION (CDEG); ECOTOXICOLOGICAL EFFECTS; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; INDEX OF GEO ACCUMULATIONS; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETER;

SOIL POLLUTION;

EID: 84925503822     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-014-3738-z     Document Type: Article

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