Environmental geochemistry of potentially toxic metals /
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| Author / Creator: | Siegel, Frederic R. (Frederic R.) |
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| Imprint: | Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2002. |
| Description: | xii, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4587118 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Geochemistry in Ecosystem Analysis of Heavy Metals Pollution
- Environmental Geochemistry
- Potentially Toxic Metals in Focus
- Important Factors That Affect Environmental Impact
- Essentiality of and Risks from Potentially Toxic Metals
- Epidemiology
- Role of the Environmental Geochemist
- Chapter 2. Sources and Origins of the Metals
- Natural Igneous Rocks
- Weathering and Soils
- Sedimentary Rocks
- Metamorphic Rocks
- The Rock Cycle
- Water
- Atmosphere
- From Human Activities Inadvertently and Knowingly
- Irrigation
- Biocide Runoff or Infiltration into Soils and Aquifers
- Anthropogenic-Human Activities Caused and Acknowledged
- Mining
- Emissions
- Effluents
- Solid Waste Disposal-Industrial and Domestic
- Chapter 3. Heavy Metals Mobility/Immobility in Environmental Media
- Controlling Parameters
- Physical Dispersion
- Mobilization in Aqueous Systems
- Hydrologic Mobility, Dispersion and Precipitation/Deposition
- Organisms in Mobility and Dispersion
- Atmospheric Mobility and Dispersion Before Deposition
- Geochemical Barriers to Mobility
- Chapter 4. Pathways, Cycles, Bioaccumulation, Impact on Ecosystems
- PTMs Environmental Cycles and Pathways
- Pathways
- Respiration
- Water
- Food
- Bioavailability, Bioaccumulations, Biomagnification
- Symptoms of Impact on Health of Ecosystem Life
- Antagonistic/Synergistic Effects
- Chapter 5. Contaminant/Natural Background Values: Timing and Processes
- Statistical Evaluation of Baseline/Background
- Timing of Onset of Contamination
- Disruption of the Time Record in Sediment Sequences
- Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) for Potentially Toxic Metals
- Chapter 6. Indicator Media of Environmental Health Status
- Atmosphere
- Soils
- Waters
- Sediment and Rock Associated with Water Systems
- Life Forms
- Flora
- Fauna
- Humans
- Chapter 7. Analysis of Indicator Media: Samples/Protocols
- Analytical Choices
- Bulk/Total Sample
- Selective Sampling
- By Size Fraction of Inorganic Media
- Suspended Matter
- Water
- Analysis of Organisms
- Selective Extraction
- Chemical Species
- International, Regional, National Protocols
- Chapter 8. Remediation/Alleviation of Metal(s)-Contaminated Media
- Soils
- Sludge
- Surface and Aquifer Waters
- Bioremediation in Soil, Sludge and Water Reclamation
- Sediment (Fluvial, Lacustrine, Estuarine, Marine)
- Underground Mine Workings in Sulfide-Bearine Rock, Surface Mine Spoils
- Emissions
- Remediation and Ecosystem Sustainability
- Chapter 9. Decision Making for Environmental Sustainability
- Populations
- Controlling Heavy Metals in Environmental Systems
- Toxicity to Sustainability of Living Environments
- Decision Making on Remediation, Alleviation, Prevention
- Comparative Risk Assessment
- Pre-Development Planning Against Heavy Metals Discharge
- References
- Epilogue
- Copyright permission
- Subject Index
