Environmental Geochemistry

Site Characterization, Data Analysis and Case Histories
2. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-444-63763-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 644 Seiten, Format (B × H): 188 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 1261 g

Environmental Geochemistry: Site Characterization, Data Analysis and Case Histories, Second Edition, reviews the role of geochemistry in the environment and details state-of-the-art applications of these principles in the field, specifically in pollution and remediation situations. Chapters cover both philosophy and procedures, as well as applications, in an array of issues in environmental geochemistry including health problems related to environment pollution, waste disposal and data base management. This updated edition also includes illustrations of specific case histories of site characterization and remediation of brownfield sites.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Devivo, Benedetto

Belkin, Harvey

Lima, Annamaria

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geochemie
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Analytische Chemie Umweltchemie, Lebensmittelchemie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface METHODS AND PROCEDURES 1. Field methods in regional geochemical surveys 2. Sampling methods for site characterization 3. Contaminated groundwater sampling and quality control of water analyses 4. The collection of drainage samples for environmental analyses from active stream channels 5. Biological monitoring for environmental chemical risk assessment 6. Data conditioning of environmental geochemical data: Quality control procedures used in the British Geological Survey's regional geochemical mapping project 7. Gas chromatographic methods of chemical analysis of organics and their quality control 8. Evaluation of geochemical background at regional and local scale by fractal filtering technique: Case studies in selected Italian areas 9. Geochemical mapping of urban areas 10. Chemical speciation to assess bio-availability, bio-accessibility and geochemical forms of potentially toxic metals (PTMs) in polluted soils 11. Extraction and characterization of pore water in contaminated soils 12. Models of geochemical speciation: structure and applications POLLUTION AND CONTAMINATION 13. Lead and strontium isotopes as monitors of anthropogenic contaminants in the surficial environment 14. Preliminary Pb isotopic compositions of soil profiles near lead smelters, East Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. 15. Polyurethane foam-based passive air samplers in monitoring persistent organic pollutants: theory and applications 16. Legacies of Organochlorine pesticides (OCP) in soil of China - A review, and cases in Southwest and Southeast China 17. The Bagnoli-Napoli brownfield site in Italy: before and after the remediation ASSOCIATED HEALTH ISSUES 18. Potential contaminants, and sustainable HazMat infrastructure: Neodeterministic (NDSHA) approach guarantees prevention rather than cure. The Bophal - Madhya Pradesh, India - gas tragedy case 19. Application of geochemistry to medical geology 20. Environmental human health issues related to indoor air pollution from domestic biomass use in rural China. A review 21. Properties, utilization, and potential health and environmental issues of depleted uranium (DU) for military and civilian use 22. Biological, chemical, and environmental hazard of desert dust to military personnel 23. Indoor mercury pollution in the herbaria: risk assessment for workers' health and potential solutions. The studies at the Florence (Italy) herbaria. 24. Occurrence and Risk Assessment of Organochlorine Pesticides (OCPs) in Multimedia Environment from Zigui Karst Area, China

Über Autor(innen)

Belkin, Harvey
Harvey Belkin is currently a Research Geologist Emeritus for the U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia. After a career of 45 years, the position of Emeritus allows continued research. After majoring in geology and geochemistry at Franklin and Marshall College and George Washington University, he joined the Branch of Experimental Mineralogy and Geochemistry, USGS. During the early part of his career, he applied the study of aqueous and silicate-melt inclusions to address problems in a wide variety of earth environments, such as ore deposits, radioactive waste disposal, and volcanology. The latter part of this career involved human health issues related to domestic use of coal and other earth materials as well as continued research in different aspects of mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, and volcanology. The author or co-author of more than 150 peer-reviewed papers, more than 200 presentations, and editor or co-editor more than 20 books and abstract volumes, Harvey Belkin continues research in a wide variety of geologic problems.

Lima, Annamaria
Since 1997, she is an Associate Professor in Geochemical Exploration and Environmental Geochemistry. Her research includes environmental geochemistry for the evaluation of anthropogenic pollution, site characterization and remediation. Data processing techniques (classical and non-parametric statistical methods, factor analysis, etc.), including geo-statistics and plotting of geochemical distribution maps. Fluid and melt inclusions in minerals applied to ore deposit genesis, geothermometry, magma genesis, and volcanology. Geochemical exploration applied to natural resources and for evaluation of the environmental hazards related to their exploitation. On the latter topics she published about 400 papers, mostly in international peer reviewed journals, 21 Monographs, 7 Editor Special Volumes (as Editor), 2 textbooks, 8 Educational Publications, 56 extended abstracts.