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Linkage between solid-phase apportionment and bioaccessible arsenic, chromium and lead in soil from Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2018

Joanna Wragg ,
Andrew Broadway ,
Mark R. Cave ,
Fiona M. Fordyce ,
Barbara Palumbo-Roe ,
Darren J. Beriro ,
John G. Farmer ,
Margaret C. Graham ,
Bryne T. Ngwenya  and
Richard J. F. Bewley
Joanna Wragg*
Affiliation:
British Geological Survey, Environmental Science Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK. Email: jwrag@bgs.ac.uk
Andrew Broadway
Affiliation:
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JN, UK.
Mark R. Cave
Affiliation:
British Geological Survey, Environmental Science Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK. Email: jwrag@bgs.ac.uk
Fiona M. Fordyce
Affiliation:
British Geological Survey, The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South, Edinburgh EH14 4AP, UK.
Barbara Palumbo-Roe
Affiliation:
British Geological Survey, Environmental Science Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK. Email: jwrag@bgs.ac.uk
Darren J. Beriro
Affiliation:
British Geological Survey, Environmental Science Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK. Email: jwrag@bgs.ac.uk
John G. Farmer
Affiliation:
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JN, UK.
Margaret C. Graham
Affiliation:
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JN, UK.
Bryne T. Ngwenya
Affiliation:
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JN, UK.
Richard J. F. Bewley
Affiliation:
URS Corporation Ltd, Manchester M1 6HS, UK.
*
*Corresponding author
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Abstract

The chemical composition of soil from the Glasgow (UK) urban area was used to identify the controls on the availability of potentially harmful elements (PHEs) in soil to humans. Total and bioaccessible concentrations of arsenic (As), chromium (Cr) and lead (Pb) in 27 soil samples, collected from different land uses, were coupled to information on their solid-phase partitioning derived from sequential extraction data. The total element concentrations in the soils were in the range <0.1–135mgkg–1 for As; 65–3680mgkg–1 for Cr and 126–2160mgkg–1 for Pb, with bioaccessible concentrations averaging 27, 5 and 27% of the total values, respectively. Land use does not appear to be a predictor of contamination; however, the history of the contamination is critically important. The Chemometric Identification of Substrates and Element Distribution (CISED) sequential chemical extraction and associated self-modelling mixture resolution analysis identified three sample groupings and 16 geochemically distinct phases (substrates). These were related to iron (n=3), aluminium–silicon (Al–Si; n=2), calcium (n=3), phosphorus (n=1), magnesium (Mg; n=3), manganese (n=1) and easily extractable (n=3), which was predominantly made up of sodium and sulphur. As, Cr and Pb were respectively found in 9, 10 and 12 of the identified phases, with bioaccessible As predominantly associated with easily extractable phases, bioaccessible Cr with the Mg-dominated phases and bioaccessible Pb with both the Mg-dominated and Al–Si phases. Using a combination of the Unified Barge Method to measure the bioaccessibility of PHEs and CISED to identify the geochemical sources has allowed a much better understanding of the complexity of PHE mobility in the Glasgow urban environment. This approach can be applied to other urban environments and cases of soil contamination, and made part of land-use planning.

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bioaccessibilityCISEDhuman health risk assessmentland contaminationmetalssequential extraction
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 108 , Issue 2-3: The Geosciences in Europe’s Urban Sustainability: Lessons from Glasgow and Beyond (CUSP) , June 2017 , pp. 217 - 230
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