Soil heavy metal contamination in residential neighborhoods in post-industrial cities and its potential human exposure risk

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 115-132

  Sharma, Kuhuk ^a   Basta, Nicholas T ^a   Grewal, Parwinder S ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Lead; Low income neighborhoods; Soil contamination; Zinc

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939884402     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-014-0395-7     Document Type: Article

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