Determination of anthropogenic boundary depth in industrially polluted soil and semi-quantification of heavy metal loads using magnetic susceptibility
Determination of anthropogenic boundary depth in industrially polluted soil and semi-quantification of heavy metal loads using magnetic susceptibility
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DOI:
10.1016/j.envpol.2008.02.013
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发表时间:
2008-11-01
影响因子:
8.9
通讯作者:
Stanjek, H.
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作者:
Blaha, U.;Appel, E.;Stanjek, H.
This study focuses on magnetic susceptibility processing and analysis towards fast and cost-efficient discrimination and semi-quantification of anthropogenic heavy metal loads in soil. Spatial variability of magnetic susceptibility was investigated on sets of soil cores from both "polluted" and "less polluted" forest soil close to a steel mill near Leoben, Austria. Test sites of similar to 10 m(2) represent "site scale" dimensions. Statistical analysis of magnetic data provides a boundary depth indicating the transition from the "polluted" to the deeper, zone in contaminated natural soil. Introduction of a block master curve simplifies the complex variations of individual curves, and represents magnetic susceptibility at "site scale". For linking the block master curve to heavy metals we only require magnetic susceptibility data from one soil core and heavy metal data from two sub-samples from the same core. Our optimized magnetic susceptibility data processing scheme provides an applicable tool to semi-quantify anthropogenic heavy metal loads in soil. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.