Trace Metals: Evolution, Environmental and Ecological Significance

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Mildred McCarthy (Editor)

Series: Environmental Remediation Technologies, Regulations and Safety
BISAC: NAT010000

Many types of urban soils, including tree pit soil, contain elevated concentrations of trace metals as compared to agricultural and natural soils. Chapter One describes how trace metals from vehicular emissions and the degradation of urban infrastructure are carried by runoff into the soil of green infrastructure such as tree pits and grassed boulevards. Chapter Two compiled As concentration data from water wells, sediments, and soils in Araihazar that were collected from the public sources and government agencies. Chapter Three focuses on the investigation of the distribution of Fe plaque in the root epidermis of selected wetland plant species (Phragmites australis, Typha latifolia and Spartina alterniflora) using synchrotron X-ray microfluoresces, X-ray absorption near edge structure and transmission X-ray microscope techniques with (sub)micro-scale resolution. Chapter Four investigates the possibility of temporal and spatial variations of potential ecological risk assessments (PERI) of Cd, Cu, Hg, Pb and Zn in the surface sediments based on four sampling cruises in the Straits of Malacca. Characterization of metals in sediments from the New York/New Jersey Harbor is necessary as part of the basic information needed in work related to dredging and environmental effects and restoration efforts in the region as reported in Chapter Five. Chapter Six discusses the arsenic concentrations in the groundwater of the lowlands of Nepal (the so called Terai). (Imprint: Nova)

 

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Compost-Amended Soil as a Filtration Medium for Trace Metals
Maryam Kargar, O. Grant Clark, Marcelo Frosi, Shiv O. Prasher, Pierre Jutras and William H. Hendershot (Bioresource Engineering Department, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and others)

Chapter 2. Arsenic Contamination in Groundwater, Sediment and Soil in Araihazar, Bangladesh
Nadia B. Jamil and Huan Feng (Department of Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA)

Chapter 3. A (Sub)Micro-Scale Investigation of Fe Plaque Distribution in a Selected Wetland Plant Root Epidermis
Huan Feng, Weiguo Zhang, Jia-Jun Wang, Yu Qian, Frank J. Gallagher, Lizhong Yu, Wenliang Liu, Houjun Liu, Yuanyi Li, Manoj D. Mahajan, Jun Wang, Christopher Eng, Keith W. Jones, Chang-Jun Liu and Ryan Tappero (Department of Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA, and others)

Chapter 4. Potential Ecological Risk Assessments of Heavy Metals in the Surface Sediments Collected from the Straits of Malacca: Temporal and Spatial Variations
Chee Kong Yap and Wan Hee Cheng (Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, and others)

Chapter 5. Grain-Scale Characterization of Metals in New York/New Jersey Harbor Sediment
János Osán, Szabina Török, Colin M. MacRae, Wooyong Um, Valeriy Titarenko, Huan Feng and Keith W. Jones (KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary, and others)

Chapter 6. Trace Elemental Contents of Arsenic-Contaminated Groundwater in Nepal Suggest the Initial Source of Arsenic in the High Himalayas
Barbara Mueller (Dept. Environmental Science, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland)

Index

 

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