Assessment of trace elements in urban topsoils of Rawalpindi-Pakistan: a principal component analysis approach

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2019, Pages

  Shehzad, Muhammad Tahir ^a,b   Murtaza, Ghulam ^b   Shafeeque, Muhammad ^c   Sabir, Muhammad ^b   Nawaz, Haq ^b   Khan, Muhammad Jamal ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Correlation coefficient analysis; Di acid digestion; Heavy metal; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; NITRIC ACID; PERCHLORIC ACID; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETER); CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; PAKISTAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; SURFACE SOIL; TRAFFIC; URBAN AREA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRY; PROCEDURES; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; URBANIZATION;

CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRY; METALS, HEAVY; PAKISTAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TRACE ELEMENTS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 85059887680     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-019-7212-y     Document Type: Article

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