Soil contamination by trace elements and radioelements and related environmental risks in agricultural soils of the M'Dhilla Basin (southwestern Tunisia).
Contamination indices
Heavy elements and radioactivity occurrence
Multivariate analysis
M’Dhilla Basin Tunisia
Phosphogypsum
Journal
Environmental monitoring and assessment
ISSN: 1573-2959
Titre abrégé: Environ Monit Assess
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 8508350
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
07 Oct 2024
07 Oct 2024
Historique:
received:
04
12
2023
accepted:
30
09
2024
medline:
7
10
2024
pubmed:
7
10
2024
entrez:
6
10
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Agricultural soil contaminated by phosphogypsum pile stocked in plan air remains a major problem in M'Dhilla city southwestern of Tunisia. The present effort aimed to enhance the knowledge of trace elements and radioactivity abundance and to assess the corresponding environment. X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy was used to evaluate the trace elements, radioactive elements, and major element concentrations. Our finding revealed that the mean values of U and Th in all the soil profiles ranged from 0.283 to 2.875 mg.kg
Identifiants
pubmed: 39370482
doi: 10.1007/s10661-024-13202-z
pii: 10.1007/s10661-024-13202-z
doi:
Substances chimiques
Trace Elements
0
Soil Pollutants
0
Soil
0
Soil Pollutants, Radioactive
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1024Informations de copyright
© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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