Pedosphere 1(4): 333--343, 1991
ISSN 1002-0160/CN 32-1315/P
©1991 Soil Science Society of China
Published by Elsevier B.V. and Science Press
| Ratios of Closely Related Elements in Soil and Their Implications |
| XING GUANG-XI, HOU WEN-HUA, YANG WEN-XING |
| Laboratory of Material Cycling in Pedosphere, Academia Sinica, Nanjing 210008 |
| ABSTRACT |
| This paper has investigated the ratios of closely related elements such as Mn, Cr, V, Ni, Co, Cu, Pb, Cd, Ba, Sr, La and Ce in the major soils of China, and the factors affecting them, and explored their use as indicators in soil formation, material transport and environmental pollution. Results show that the effect of soil-forming processes on the ratios of closely related elements varied with different elements, and became greater in the sequence of Ce/La <V/Cr=Ni/Co<Zn/Cu=Zn/Pb<Zn/Cd <Mn/Cr <Ba/Sr. The magnitude of the variation in the ratios of closely related elements depended on the chemical properties of the elements themselves, on the one hand, and the parent material and climatic conditions on the other. |
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| Citation: Xing, G. X., Hou, W. H. and Yang, W. X. 1991. Ratios of Closely Related Elements in Soil and Their Implications. Pedosphere. 1(4): 333-343. |
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