Geochemistry of urban surface soils — Monitoring in Trondheim, Norway

Andersson, Malin; Ottesen, Rolf Tore; Langedal, Marianne

doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2010.02.005

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“…All measurements were far below the Dutch intervention value of 10 mg·kg −1 [31] and the Canadian legislative limit value of 6.6 mg·kg −1 for residential/park land uses [32]. The Hg concentrations in topsoil samples from Athens were compared with data reported for other cities around the world [5,9,12,19,20,[33][34][35][36][37][38]. The results of this comparison are presented in Table 2.…”

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Mercury in the Urban Topsoil of Athens, Greece

Kelepertzis

Argyraki

2015

Sustainability

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Abstract:The present study documents the Hg content in 45 urban topsoil samples from the highly urbanized city of Athens, Greece. The Hg concentrations were quantified by applying aqua regia digestion on the <100 μm soil fraction followed by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) with a detection limit of 5 μg·kg , which is the maximum concentration value expected to be present in normal uncontaminated soils. Results obtained by multivariate principal component and hierarchical cluster analysis incorporating a large suite of chemical elements were notably effective for elucidating the anthropogenic origin of Hg in the studied soil. The elevated concentrations are most likely related to site-specific point source contamination rather than to the widely documented influences from the vehicular traffic emissions in urban settings. Given the proximity of urban population to the contaminated urban soils, we suggest the implementation of different soil extraction tests with the aim to evaluate the fraction of soil Hg available for absorption by the human body.

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Mercury in the Urban Topsoil of Athens, Greece

Kelepertzis

Argyraki

2015

Sustainability

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“…1 for sample location). This indicates that vehicular traffic is the major contributory factor in urban soil contamination by the typical anthropogenic elements (Li et al, 2001(Li et al, , 2004Möller et al, 2005;Morton-Bermea et al, 2009;Andersson et al, 2010). Leaded fuel for Pb and its use as a balance in the wheels of the cars (Harris and Davidson, 2005) and tire wear for Zn have been recognized as specific vehicular traffic-related sources (Albanese and Breward, 2011).…”

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Heavy Metals in Urban Park Soils From Athens, Greece

Papazotos¹,

Chalkiadaki²,

Chatzistamatiou³

et al. 2017

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“…In Figure 3 it can be seen that higher contents of Pb > 250 mg/kg have been found in the eastern part of the industrial estate. Authors [2,6,8,9,46,47] have stated that the occurrence of lead in topsoil relates additionally to industrial emissions, and to traffic. Until 1990, in the Czech Republic, lead tetraethyl was used as an antiknock additive in petrol.…”

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“…The range of materials that comprise urban soil is much broader than that of rural or forested areas. However, the main problems associated with urban soil are contamination, compaction, poor drainage and stone content [1,[6][7][8][9].…”

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Screening of the Spatial Distribution of Risk Metals in Topsoil from an Industrial Complex

Slavík¹,

Julinová²,

Labudíková³

2012

Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S

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Abstract:For the sustainable development of urban areas, it is necessary to identify if environmental pollution exists and where hot spot pollution sources lie. In this study, 280 topsoil samples were collected from an industry estate in Zlin (the Czech Republic). In these samples, the presence of toxic metal was analyzed by energy dispersed X-Ray fluorescence (ED-XRF), and statistical analysis revealed that the major anthropogenic contaminants in the topsoil were Pb, Zn and Sn. Further contaminant analysis by atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) determined the maximum contents of 28558.47 mg/kg for Pb, 1132.35 mg/kg for Sn and 2865.22 mg/kg for Zn in selected topsoil samples. According to soil pollution index results, the main proportion of topsoil is contaminated, with the possible sources of contamination being traffic and a nearby municipal heating plant. This study proves that the combination of preliminary ED-XRF topsoil analysis, a multivariative statistical approach, AAS analysis and the geographical information system (GIS) is effective and together form a powerful tool for mapping topsoil contamination and conducting an environmental risk assessment.

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Geochemistry of urban surface soils — Monitoring in Trondheim, Norway

Cited by 65 publications

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Mercury in the Urban Topsoil of Athens, Greece

Mercury in the Urban Topsoil of Athens, Greece

Heavy Metals in Urban Park Soils From Athens, Greece

Screening of the Spatial Distribution of Risk Metals in Topsoil from an Industrial Complex

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