Jan 28, 2015 - Faculty, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey ... forest soils are present in the region (Marmara Basin ...... Technology, 33, 143–152.
Environ Monit Assess (2015) 187:99 DOI 10.1007/s10661-015-4337-5
Assessment of heavy metals in agricultural soils and their source apportionment: a Turkish district survey Güler Dartan & Fatih Taşpınar & İsmail Toröz
Received: 22 August 2014 / Accepted: 28 January 2015 # Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Abstract This study aimed at investigating the impact of industrialization on the quality of agricultural soils in the district of Bandırma, Turkey, in terms of soil heavy metal contamination. Many soil and phosphogypsum samples were analyzed, and enrichment factors (EFs) were calculated. The average concentration gradient of metals in the soil (mg/kg) was As
