Lead-isotopes as tracers of pollutants in soils

Hansmann, W.; Köppel, V.

doi:10.1016/s0009-2541(00)00230-8

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“…The identification and differentiation of trace metals between anthropogenic and natural sources using an isotopic technique have largely been limited to Pb (Ault et al, 1970;Gulson et al, 1981;Farmer et al, 1996;Callender and Rice, 2000;Hansmann and Koppel, 2000;McGill et al, 2000;Semlali et al, 2001Semlali et al, & 2004. Innovative uses of other isotopes in environmental studies remain limited.…”

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Urban environmental geochemistry of trace metals

Wong

Thornton

2006

Environmental Pollution

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"Capsule": Urban environmental geochemistry as a scientific discipline provides valuable information on trace metal contamination of the urban environment and its associated health effects. AbstractAs the world's urban population continues to grow, it becomes increasingly imperative to understand the dynamic interactions between human activities and the urban environment. The development of urban environmental geochemistry has yielded a significant volume of scientific information about geochemical phenomena found uniquely in the urban environment, such as the distribution, dispersion, and geochemical characteristics of some toxic and potentially toxic trace metals. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the development of urban environmental geochemistry as a field of scientific study and highlight major transitions during the course of its development from its establishment to the major scientific interests in the field today. An extensive literature review is also conducted of trace metal contamination of the urban terrestrial environment, in particular of urban soils, in which the uniqueness of the urban environment and its influences  Corresponding author (X. D. Li): E-mail address: cexdli@polyu.edu.hk. Tel.: +852-2766-6041; Fax: +852-2334-6389. This is the Pre-Published Version.2 on trace metal contamination are elaborated. Last, potential areas of future development in urban environmental geochemistry are identified and discussed.

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Section: Use Of Other Metal Isotopesmentioning

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Urban environmental geochemistry of trace metals

Wong

Thornton

2006

Environmental Pollution

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“…The Pb isotopic composition allows the identification of lead sources and the determination of their respective contributions (Erel et al, 1997;Steinmann and Stille, 1997;Hansmann and Koppel, 2000;Teutsch et al, 2001;Semlali et al, 2001 respectively. Lead ores display isotopic signatures that depend mainly on the original composition and on the age of the ore bodies, thus Pb emissions from anthropogenic sources reflect the isotopic composition of these ores.…”

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Heavy metal distribution in some French forest soils: evidence for atmospheric contamination

Hernandez

Probst

et al. 2003

Science of The Total Environment

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This study is one of very few dealing with the distribution and the origin of heavy metals in French soils from a priori non-polluted forest areas. The abundance of heavy metals measured in these soils decreases as follows: Cr) Zn)Pb)Ni)Cu)Co4Cd. Total concentrations of Pb, Cr and Ni in some soils exceed the European thresholds for non-polluted soils and even the French association of normalization critical values for sludge spreading. The lowest heavy metal contents are observed in acid soils while the highest concentrations are in the calcaric cambisol and in the mollic andosol, which is rather scarce as compared with the other French forest soils. With the exception of the podzol, Cr and Ni concentrations increase with depth in all soil profiles. The distribution pattern of Co, Cu, Zn depends on the soil characteristics. In some acid soils, however, Cu and Zn decrease with depth. Pb and Cd are accumulated in the upper soil horizons. Heavy metals accumulate in deep soil horizons in relation to important clay content in the dystric planosol and stagnic luvisol. The concentration of each heavy metal is always controlled by different parameters (soil pH, iron and aluminum oxide content, clay content, organic matter and cation exchange capacity), which are heavy metal specific. This study highlights the metal-trapping character of andosol and calcaric soil, the weak heavy metal retention in acid soils, the leaching and trapping character in leached clayed soils, and the migration of heavy metals in the podzol. Pb and Cr concentrations indicate a significant enrichment in surface horizons from various soils in areas which receive significant acid atmospheric pollution. Particularly, the highest Pb content is observed in a soil located in the N-NE part of France. Lead isotope ratios measured in the cambic podzol and the calcaric cambisol, exhibit the importance of the anthropogenic sources and particularly the influence of global atmospheric inputs from leaded gasoline compared to regional and local industrial emissions. The anthropogenic Pb contribution is estimated to 83, 30 and 11%, respectively, for surface, intermediate and deep horizons of the cambic podzol located in the northern part of France, and to 68% in surface horizon of the calcaric cambisol located in the Alps.

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“…However, other sources of aerosol Pb have been recorded in the UK with a range of 1.06-1.13 (Charlesworth et al, 2006;Noble et al, 2008). Whilst peat bogs and lake sediments have been extensively studied over the last decades as they provide undisturbed long-term records of Pb deposition (Chenery et al, 2012;Eades et al, 2002;Farmer et al, 1996Farmer et al, , 1997aFarmer et al, , 1997bFarmer et al, , 2005Hansmann and Köppel, 2000), it is only relatively recently that Pb isotopes have been applied as a method for provenancing the origin of Pb in riverine environments (Bird, 2011). Shepherd et al (2009) described a regional study of Pb isotopes in stream sediments from Northern England and concluded that the Pennine ore signature was dominant although the anthropogenic Pb contribution could be significant.…”

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Sources, lability and solubility of Pb in alluvial soils of the River Trent catchment, U.K.

Izquierdo

Tye

Chenery

2012

Science of The Total Environment

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Alluvial soils are reservoirs of metal contaminants such as Pb that originate from many different sources and are integrated temporally and spatially through erosional and depositional processes. In this study the source, lability and solubility of Pb was examined in a range of alluvial soils from the middle and lower River Trent and its tributary the River Dove using Pb isotope apportionment and isotopic dilution. All samples were collected within 10 m of the river bank to represent the soil that is most likely to be remobilised during bank erosion. Paired samples were taken from the topsoil Pb ratios showed that the isotopic ratios of Pb in the total, labile and solution pools fitted along a mixing line between Broken Hill Type ('BHT') Pb, used as an additive in UK petrol, and the local coal/Sourthern Pennine ore Pb. Various anomalies were found in the Pb isotopes of the bankside alluvial soils which were explained by point source pollution. Statistically significant differences were found between (i) the isotopic composition of Pb in the total soil pool and the labile/solution pools and (ii) the isotopic composition of Pb in the labile and solution pools, suggesting an enrichment of recent non-Pennine sources of Pb entering the soils in the labile and solution pools.

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Lead-isotopes as tracers of pollutants in soils

Cited by 202 publications

References 21 publications

Urban environmental geochemistry of trace metals

Urban environmental geochemistry of trace metals

Heavy metal distribution in some French forest soils: evidence for atmospheric contamination

Sources, lability and solubility of Pb in alluvial soils of the River Trent catchment, U.K.

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