Heavy metal concentrations in roadside-deposited sediments in Kuwait city
| Autor: | Jasem M. Al-Awadhi, Bashayer T. Aldhafiri |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Sediment Background concentrations Heavy metals 010501 environmental sciences Contamination 01 natural sciences Metal Mining engineering visual_art Environmental chemistry parasitic diseases visual_art.visual_art_medium General Earth and Planetary Sciences Environmental science Enrichment factor 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Arabian Journal of Geosciences. 9 |
| ISSN: | 1866-7538 1866-7511 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12517-016-2543-2 |
| Popis: | In the present study, roadside-deposited sediment samples collected from Kuwait city district, in Kuwait, were analyzed for specific heavy metals (As, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn). Contamination assessment status of heavy metals in roadside sediments was made using mathematical models in terms of enrichment factor (EF), geoaccumulation index (I geo), and contamination factor (CF). The sediments showed remarkably high levels of all the metals, except Ni, above background concentrations in the following order (As, Cu, Pb, Zn, Mn, and Cr). CF and I geo revealed overall moderately uncontaminated and moderate contamination, respectively, but the EFs for all metals ranged between moderate and significant enrichment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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