Ecological risk assessment of priority PAHs pollutants in crude oil contaminated soil and its impacts on soil biological properties

P Chakravarty, D Chowdhury, H Deka - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are one of the major toxic constituents of crude oil
and therefore, an understanding on PAHs associated risks and their relationship with soil …

Trend analysis of global usage of digital soil mapping models in the prediction of potentially toxic elements in soil/sediments: a bibliometric review

PC Agyeman, SK Ahado, L Borůvka, JKM Biney… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
The rising and continuous pollution of the soil from anthropogenic activities is of great
concern. Owing to this concern, the advent of digital soil mapping (DSM) has been a tool that …

Assessment of heavy metal pollution from a Fe-smelting plant in urban river sediments using environmental magnetic and geochemical methods

C Zhang, Q Qiao, JDA Piper, B Huang - Environmental pollution, 2011 - Elsevier
Environmental magnetic proxies provide a rapid means of assessing the degree of industrial
heavy metal pollution in soils and sediments. To test the efficiency of magnetic methods for …

Contamination characteristics and source apportionment of heavy metals in topsoil from an area in Xi'an city, China

X Chen, X Lu - Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2018 - Elsevier
As soil-extractable elements potentially pose ecological and health risks, identifying their
contamination characteristics and sources is crucial. Therefore, to understand topsoil trace …

Distribution of metals in soil particle size fractions and its implication to risk assessment of playgrounds in Murcia City (Spain)

JA Acosta, AF Cano, JM Arocena, F Debela… - Geoderma, 2009 - Elsevier
Metal contents in bulk soil samples are commonly used to assess contamination but metal
accumulations in soils are known to increase with decreasing particle size. We investigated …

Characterization of heavy metals in coal gangue-reclaimed soils from a coal mining area

Q Tang, L Li, S Zhang, L Zheng, C Miao - Journal of Geochemical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Coal gangue is practically used as a filling material for soil reclamation in the coal mining
subsidence areas. Due to the toxic elements enriched in coal gangue, the reclaimed soils …

Sediment-associated heavy metal contamination and potential ecological risk along an urban river in South Africa

C Mohajane, M Manjoro - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
Sediment contamination by heavy metals poses one of the worst environmental risks to
aquatic ecosystems worldwide. The study explored sediment-associated heavy metal …

杭州城区土壤的磁性与磁性矿物学及其环境意义

卢升高, 白世强 - 地球物理学报, 2008 - dzkx.org
对杭州城区四个不同功能区块土壤进行了系统的环境磁学测定, 结果表明城市土壤的磁化率平均
值为128× 10-8m3· kg-1, 频率磁化率平均值3.6%(样品数= 182), 城市土壤呈现明显的磁性增强 …

Spatial distribution of magnetic properties and selected heavy metals in calcareous soils as affected by land use in the Isfahan region, Central Iran

Z Dankoub, S Ayoubi, H Khademi, LU Sheng-Gao - Pedosphere, 2012 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic activities have caused the accumulation of heavy metals in the soil
environment. Pollution of the soils significantly reduces environmental quality and affects …

Characterization of the particle size fraction associated with heavy metals in suspended sediments of the Yellow River

Q Yao, X Wang, H Jian, H Chen, Z Yu - International journal of …, 2015 - mdpi.com
Variations in the concentrations of particulate heavy metals and fluxes into the sea in the
Yellow River were examined based on observational and measured data from January …