Research and analysis

Ambient background metal concentrations for soils in England and Wales

This report provides a processes to predict metal background concentrations in soils.

• From: Environment Agency
• Published: 1 July 2008

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Ambient background metal concentrations for soils in England and Wales

Ref: ISBN 1844326101, LIT 3497

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Ambient background concentrations of trace metals in soils vary widely and therefore for any risk assessment of metals, consideration of a local or site specific background is important. The objective of this project was to investigate whether ambient background concentrations of Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn in soils can be predicted from other semi-conservative soil properties such as Al and Fe concentrations or soil texture information.

Published 1 July 2008