Metal contamination in urban, suburban, and country park soils of Hong Kong: a study based on GIS and multivariate statistics.

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Published in Sci Total Environ on March 01, 2006

Authors

Celine Siu-Lan Lee1, Xiangdong Li, Wenzhong Shi, Sharon Ching-nga Cheung, Iain Thornton

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

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