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Ecological and geochemical assessment of soil cover in industrial and urban agglomerations of Ukraine

ABSTRACT

Report on the research project: 125 p., 26 tables, 39 figures, 75 references.

The object of the research: heavy metals in the soil cover of industrial urban agglomerations of Ukraine.

The purpose of the research is to establish the features of heavy metals distribution in the soils of Ukrainian cities of various landscape-geochemical zones under the technogenic pressure.

Research methods: general chemical analysis; atomic absorption analysis; emission spectral analysis, mass spectrometry method with inductively coupled plasma ICP-MS (on the Element-2 device, Germany).

The results of the conducted research complement the ecological-geochemical assessment of the soil cover of Ukrainian cities of various landscape-geochemical zones. It was established that the cadmium content in the soils of the village Pobuzhke, which is under the influence of the ferrous metallurgy enterprise, exceeds both background indicators and maximum permissible concentrations. There is an accumulation of significant concentrations of heavy metals and selenium directly near industrial enterprises, spreading to adjacent territories up to 10 km (Krasnoperekopsk city). Areas of the most technogenically polluted groundwater in the city of Kyiv are highlighted in comparison with background values. It was established that, under the influence of ferrous metallurgy enterprises, a technogenic association of heavy metals was formed in the soils of sanitary protection zones: Pb > Zn > Cu > Mn > Cr (cities of Mariupol, Alchevsk, Dniprodzerzhinsk).

The results of the project can be used by business entities and environmental protection organizations when determining the content of heavy metals in the soil cover of industrial urban agglomerations of Ukraine.

Authors:

Other authors:

Voitiuk Yu.Yu., Yakovenko O.V., Popenko E.S.

Keywords:

heavy metals, soils, natural waters, finding forms, natural and technogenic landscapes
 

Head of the research:

Zlobina Kateryna Serhiivna

Registration Card (RC):

0113U005422

Execution period of the research:

2013 - 2014