Environmental Geochemistry
Site Characterization, Data Analysis and Case Histories

A robust overview of the field of environmental geochemistry, including current site characterization and data analysis techniques

Benedetto DeVivo (Edited by), Harvey Belkin (Edited by), Annamaria Lima (Edited by)

9780444637635, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 18 September 2017

644 pages
23.4 x 19 x 3.9 cm, 1.33 kg

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.

1. Introduction 2. Field Methods in Regional Geochemical Surveys 3. Sampling Methods for Site Characterisation 4. Contaminated Groundwater Sampling and Quality Control of Water Analyses 5. The collection of drainage samples for environmental analyses from active stream channels 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 scales by fractal filtering technique: case studies in selected Italian areas 9. Geochemical mapping of urban areas 10. Chemical speciation to assess bioavailability, bioaccessibility and geochemical forms of potentially toxic metals (PTMs) in polluted soils 11. Extraction and characterisation of pore water in contaminated soils 12. Models of geochemical speciation: structure and applications 13. Utility of Lead isotopes as discriminators of anthropogenic versus natural sources in the surficial environment 14. Management of hazardous by–products of urban waste incineration: some considerations on the Italian situation 15. New Developments in the Analysis and Remediation of Brownfields in the United States 16. Characterization and Remediation of the Bagnoli brownfield in Italy: before and after the remediation? 17. Environmental human health issues related to indoor air pollution from domestic biomass use in rural China: a review 18. Applications of geochemistry to medical geology 19. Biological and Environmental Hazards of the Desert Dust to Military Personne 20. Environmental characteristics and utilization potential of metallurgical slag 21. Polyurethane foam-based passive air samplers in monitoring persistent organic pollutants: theory and application 22. The history and the Present of Organochlorine Pesticides (OCPs) in soil in China: a review and cases on the Southwest and the Southeast of China 23. Soil and water contamination by potentially harmful elements: case history in India 24. A microbial analysis primer for biogeochemists

Subject Areas: The environment [RN], Geochemistry [RBGK], Geology & the lithosphere [RBG]