Geochemistry of Heavy Metals in Urban Environments
Subject Areas : Environmental pollutions (water, soil and air)
1 - Assistant Professor, East Azerbaijan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center, AREEO, Tabriz, Iran. *(Corresponding Author)
Keywords: Pollution, Human, Chemical properties,
Abstract :
With attention to increasing trend of world population, awareness of correlation between human and urban environment is necessary. Growth and development of urban environmental geochemistry caused to find huge quantity of scientific data regarding geochemical process of urban environments such as distribution, diffusion, and chemical properties of some toxic elements. Review of urban geochemistry in different steps from appearance to important skills of recent, is goal of this paper. Geochemistry of urban environments gives us valuable information about heavy metal pollution and health effect of them.
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