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Title: |
Soil Contamination |
| Sub-title: |
New Research |
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| Edited by: |
Anton N Dubois |
| ISBN10-13: |
1604561440 : 9781604561449 |
| Illustrations: |
tables, charts & illus |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
180x260mm |
| Pages: |
215 |
| Weight: |
.710 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - June 2008 |
| List Price: |
199.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Pollution & threats to the environment |
| Soil contamination is the presence of man-made chemicals or other alteration in the natural soil environment. This type of contamination typically arises from the rupture of underground storage tanks, application of pesticides, percolation of contaminated surface water to subsurface strata, leaching of wastes from landfills or direct discharge of industrial wastes to the soil. The most common chemicals involved are petroleum hydrocarbons, solvents, pesticides, lead and other heavy metals. This occurrence of this phenomenon is correlated with the degree of industrialisation and intensity of chemical usage. The concern over soil contamination stems primarily from health risks, both of direct contact and from secondary contamination of water supplies. Mapping of contaminated soil sites and the resulting cleanup are time consuming and expensive tasks, requiring extensive amounts of geology, hydrology, chemistry and computer modelling skills. This book presents the latest research from around the world. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Preface; Advances in the Aluminum Toxicity and Tolerance of Plants for Increased Productivity in Acid Soils; Recent developments in the determination, fractionation and speciation analysis of aluminium by spectrochemical analytical methods and computer modelling; Soil Contamination: From Large to Small Scale; Soil Pollution From an Acidic Sulphate Spill; Spatio-Temporal Modeling of the Dust Emissions from an Opencast Coal Mining Area; Using Molasses for Stimulation of the Degradative and Activities of the Microbial Community in Soil Contaminated with Oil Shale Liquid Fuel; Remediation of contaminated soil by application of modified cyclodextrins; Hydrocarbon and Heavy Metal Contamination in Wetland Soils: Current Status and Remediation Techniques; Implications of Historic Soil Pollution for Floodplain Renaturation Concepts; Soil Disbalance Factors and Nostoc Commune; Index. |
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