Anthropogenic industrial pollution

Abiotic toxic damage and accumulation of metals and nonmetals in wild and cultivated plants may result from natural geochemical loads in the soil (Kovalskij 1977) caused by macro, trace and ultratrace elements in water used for irrigation, in natural volcanoes and anthropogenic industrial pollution of the atmosphere. Water, aerosols, and dust contain a variety of aluminum, arsenic, cad-... 

The CF groundwater is affected by anthropogenic pollution from urban and industrial pollution urban groundwater pollution typically contains nitrates whereas industrial groundwater pollution typically contains heavy metals and hydrocarbons. It is important to recognize the contamination produced by the upwelling... 

If the already mentioned measurements of Cauer (1939) of gas phase iodine concentrations that resulted from the industrial burning of kelp of 0.5 p,g m were indeed correct and representative, it may be interesting to find out what impact anthropogenic iodine pollution may have had on the chemistry of the atmosphere during the first quarter of the past century in Europe. 

The CPI, a measure of biologically synthesized n-alkanes, indicates the relative contributions of M-alkanes from natural (CP1>1) compared to anthropogenic (petroleum and industrial pollution, CP1< 1)... 

A number of surface waters in Europe have been shown to contain PFCs as anthropogenic trace pollutants (Table 1). Concerning sources of surface water contamination, WWTPs play an important role. Municipal, industrial [26, 27, 56] and treated landfill leachate WWTP effluents [28, 29] have been proved to discharge PFCs and to increase environmental concentrations in rivers and also in grotmdwater aquifers (see Chap. 3. PFC Concentrations in Groundwater ). One study [57] was able to correlate the mass-flow of PFOA and PFOS to the number of... 

The main part of anthropogenic SOx pollution is caused by combustion of fossil fuels, i.e., oil and coal in industrial regions that can cover less than 5% of the earth s surface. 

For convenience, anthropogenic pollutants can be divided into three classes heavy metals, pesticides and industrial chemicals. 

Ansari A.A., Singh I.B., Tobschall H.J. Status of anthropogenically induced metal pollution in the Kanpur-Unnao industrial region of the Ganga Plain, India. Environ Geology 1999 38 25-33. 

However, factor analysis cannot always distinguish between naturally elevated heavy metal concentrations and anthropogenic pollution. In specific areas, detailed mineralogical phase analysis is used to make this distinction and to determine the origin and transport distance of industrial particles in the environment (Neinavaie et al. 2000). 

The second type is an anthropogenic biogeochemical area where the excessive content of many chemical species is due to industrial or agricultural human activities, like ore explorations, intensive emission of pollutants, application of fertilizers, improper irrigation, etc. 

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