wAbstract
@This work is a complementary investigation to the earlier urban
soil survey for a rapidly growing city of relatively high traffic
density. Therefore, it aims to apply the environmental magnetism
approach to assess the roadside pollution at a known polluted
site. The used magnetic proxies are the initial magnetic susceptibility
and saturation mgnetization. The results prove the applicability
of this method in detecting roadside pollution. The shape and
magnitude of the magnetic signals was affected by the topography
and prevailing wind direction that caused the magnetic peaks to
be shifted accordingly. Particle size was found to affect the
magnetic material content, where sand size (63-150 Κm) bears the
highest magnetic signals relative to smaller silt size (63Κm).
The magnetic anomalies coincided positively with heavy metal pollution
in the studied site, which might indicate that the magnetic materials
serve as an effective proxy for the metallic pollution (i.e.,
Fe, Ni, Pb, Cu, and Zn) originated mainly from vehicular sources.
Keywords: Magnetic proxies; Traffic density; Roadside pollution;
Anthropogenicx
Introduction
Study area settings
Sampling and analytical methods
Results and discussion
Conclusions
Acknowledgments
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