This textbook provides an overview of transport and fate processes of environmental
contamination, in such a way that the reader can both understand and predict contaminant …

The revised Environmental Protection Act Part 2A contaminated land Statutory Guidance
(England and Wales) makes reference to 'normal'levels of contaminants in soil. The British …

In China, soil pollution is very serious, which has jeopardized the ecology, food safety, the
people's health, and even the sustainable development of agriculture. In order to investigate …

The forensic potential of geological and soil evidence has been recognized for more than a
century, but recently these types of evidence are used much more widely as an investigative …

The total concentration of different elements in the soil–its geochemistry–has implications for
both human and animal health. For example, soil geochemistry influences the availability of …

Industrial activity such as burning of fossil fuels produces magnetically enhanced
particulates. These particulates consist of coarse-grained multidomain and stable single …

Abstract The Geochemical Baseline Survey of the Environment is a long-established, high-
resolution regional geochemical mapping project run by the British Geological Survey. A …

Stream-sediment and soil geochemical data from the Upper and Lower Coastal Plains of
South Carolina (USA) were studied to determine relationships between soils and stream …

This study describes the hydrogeochemistry and distributions of As in groundwater from a
newly investigated area of Burkina Faso. Groundwaters have been sampled from hand …

Abstract Soil pollution by Cd, Hg, As, Pb, Cr, Cu, and Zn was characterized in the area of the
mining and smelting of metal ores at Guiyang, northeast of Hunan Province. A total of 150 …