Spatial variability of soil contamination around a sulphureous acid producing factory in Russia

In many contaminated sites and/or sites affected by a potentially toxic element (PTE) contamination, the spatial variability of soil contamination is a very complex issue.This is because the history of contamination in a specific industrial site is often lost in time and with very different modifications occurring over time. It is even hidden in the case of illegal waste dumping, for which type, quantity and localization of contaminants are unknown. Thus it is not known in advance (i) the spatial distribution of contamination, (ii) the knowledge about how contaminants have been distributed over and beneath the soil, (iii) how far contaminants have been reworked during the life time of the contaminated site.Despite these problems, it is self-evident that a detailed knowledge of the natural and the anthropogenic spatial variability of soil contamination and soil properties is of crucial importance in both site characterization and most importantly in site reclamation.Here we claim that the analysis of soil trenches in combination with pXRF can strongly support the understanding about processes behind soil contaminant distribution and this information can then be used in the following study of contaminated site characterization.This contribution focuses on how to acquire detailed knowledge of the spatial distribution of contamination in an agricultural area of southern Italy, 6 ha of farmland confiscated by the Italian Judiciary due to past illegal burial of industrial tannery wastes causing potential contamination by Cr, Zn and heavy hydrocarbons (C>12). After indirect geophysical and radiometric (i.e. soil gamma ray emissions) prospections, 8 sites for soil profiles and trenches (10 x 1.7 m wide) digging were identified.Over these trenches both morphological (i.e. colour, structure, plant roots, etc.) and elemental total content analysis (Olympus p-XRF) were performed. This analysis enable to identify three type of soil contaminant deposition which affected to various degree the Ap, Bw and C horizons of the investigated Silandic Andosol. The highest Cr and Zn content was found in the B horizon, where levels of 25000 ppm were measured in soil-pockets of muddy-grey materials, very likely hosting the original processing residues.

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The macroscopic kinetics of temporal and spatial variability of the NDVI in Yamskaya Steppe Reserve under conditions of soil contamination with heavy metals

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa ◽

10.21046/2070-7401-2019-16-2-111-127 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 111-127

Author(s):

G.P. Glazunov ◽

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V.M. Gendugov ◽

M.V. Evdokimova ◽

R.P. Titarev ◽

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Keyword(s):

Heavy Metals ◽

Soil Contamination ◽

Spatial Variability ◽

Temporal And Spatial Variability ◽

Temporal And Spatial ◽

Kinetics Of ◽

Macroscopic Kinetics

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Modelling the spatial variability in floodplain soil contamination during flood events to improve chemical mass balance estimates

Hydrological Processes ◽

10.1002/(sici)1099-1085(19980630)12:8<1233::aid-hyp614>3.0.co;2-2 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 12 (8) ◽

pp. 1233-1255 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

M. D. Stewart ◽

P. D. Bates ◽

D. A. Price ◽

T. P. Burt

Keyword(s):

Soil Contamination ◽

Spatial Variability ◽

Mass Balance ◽

Chemical Mass Balance ◽

Flood Events ◽

Floodplain Soil

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Sampling and mapping of heterogeneous surfaces: multi-resolution tiling adjusted to spatial variability

International Journal of Geographical Information Systems ◽

10.1080/026937996137756 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 10 (7) ◽

pp. 851-876

Author(s):

Ferenc Csillag ◽

Miklos Kertesz ◽

Agnes Kummert

Keyword(s):

Spatial Variability ◽

Heterogeneous Surfaces

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Spatial variability induces generalization in contextual cueing.

Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition ◽

10.1037/xlm0000796 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 46 (12) ◽

pp. 2295-2313

Author(s):

Yoko Higuchi ◽

Yoshiyuki Ueda ◽

Kazuhisa Shibata ◽

Jun Saiki

Keyword(s):

Spatial Variability ◽

Contextual Cueing

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Spatial variability in responses to environmental conditions in Southern Hemisphere long-finned pilot whales

Marine Ecology Progress Series ◽

10.3354/meps13109 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 629 ◽

pp. 207-218 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

V Hamilton ◽

K Evans ◽

B Raymond ◽

E Betty ◽

MA Hindell

Keyword(s):

Spatial Variability ◽

Southern Hemisphere ◽

Environmental Conditions ◽

Pilot Whales

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Use of vetiver (Vetiveria zizanoides) in remediation of cyanide soil contamination

Journal of Biology and Today s World ◽

10.15412/j.jbtw.01040702 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (7) ◽

Author(s):

K. Saeb ◽

R. Khadami ◽

S. Khoramnejadian ◽

E. Abdollahi

Keyword(s):

Soil Contamination

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DISTRIBUIÇÃO DA EVAPORAÇÃO EM ESTUFA PLÁSTICA NA PRIMAVERA

Irriga ◽

10.15809/irriga.2001v6n3p120-127 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 120-127

Author(s):

Reginaldo Ferreira Santos ◽

Antonio Evaldo Klar

Keyword(s):

Spatial Variability ◽

Pan Evaporation ◽

Spring Season ◽

Class A ◽

Agricultural Sciences ◽

E Mail ◽

Center Area ◽

Class A Pan

DISTRIBUIÇÃO DA EVAPORAÇÃO EM ESTUFA PLÁSTICA NA PRIMAVERA Reginaldo Ferreira SantosCentro de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológica da UNIOESTE- CP 711CEP 858114-110, Cascavel, PR - Fone: 0XX45 2203155. E-mail: [email protected] Evaldo KlarDepartamento de Engenharia Rural - Faculdade de Ciências Agronômica- UNESP - CEP 18603-970 - Botucatu, SP. CP: 237. E-mail: [email protected] 1 RESUMO O presente trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar a distribuição da evaporação no interior de uma estufa plástica, com uma cultura de pimentão, através da variabilidade espacial e comparar a evaporação dos microevaporímetros com os valores do Tanque classe "A". O experimento foi conduzido no Campus da Universidade Estadual Paulista - FCA/UNESP, no período de primavera, em estufa plástica de polietileno de baixa densidade (PEBD). Na distribuição da evaporação em estufa com orientação norte/sul, verificou-se que as maiores evaporações ocorreram nas extremidades sul e norte tendente ao lado oeste. Já as menores evaporações localizaram-se no centro. No período de primavera, a evaporação média nos microevaporímetros superestimou em 55% a evaporação determinada no Tanque classe "A". UNITERMOS: evaporação, geoestatística, estufa. SANTOS, R.F, KLAR, A.E. EVAPORATION DISTRIBUTION INSIDE A PLASTIC TUNNEL IN THE SPRING SEASON 2 ABSTRACT The main aim of this study was to verify the evaporation distribution inside a plastic tunnel, with pepper crop, oriented to north/south, through spatial variability and to compare Class A Pan evaporation to punctual evaporations of 40 equidistant microevaporimeters placed from 50cm the soil. The study was carried out at the College of Agricultural Sciences/UNESP, Botucatu – SP in the spring season. The highest evaporation occurred next to north and to south sides of the tunnel, with tendency to west. Consequently, the lowest evaporations occurred at the center area. The microevaporimeter evaporations were 55% higher than those obtained from Class A Pan. KEYWORDS: evaporation distribution, microevaporimeter.

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