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ADVANCES IN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
卷 8, 期 1, 页码 137-146出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S1093-0191(02)00138-7
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background concentration; natural and anthropogenic; arsenic; Florida
Arsenic contamination is of great environmental concern due to its toxic effects as a carcinogen. Knowledge of arsenic background concentrations is important for land application of wastes and for making remediation decisions. The soil clean-up target level for arsenic in Florida (0.8 and 3.7 mg kg(-1) for residential and commercial areas, respectively) lies within the range of both background and analytical quantification limits. The objective of this study was to compare arsenic distribution in urban and non-urban areas of Florida. Approximately 440 urban and 448 non-urban Florida soil samples were compared. For urban areas, soil samples were collected from three land-use classes (residential, commercial and public land) in two cities, Gainesville and Miami. For the non-urban areas, samples were collected from relatively undisturbed non-inhabited areas. Arsenic concentrations varied greatly in Gainesville, ranging from 0.21 to approximately 660 mg kg(-1) with a geometric mean (GM) of 0.40 mg kg(-1), which were lower than Miami samples (ranging from 0.32 to 112 mg kg(-1); GM=2.81 mg kg(-1)). Arsenic background concentrations in urban soils were significantly greater and showed greater variation than those from relatively undisturbed non-urban soils (GM=0.27 mg kg(-1)) in general. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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