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Concentration of Heavy Metals in Natural Soils of Jeju Island, Korea

제주도 자연토양에서 중금속의 농도

  • Kim, Se-Ra (Research Institute of Health & Environment, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province) ;
  • Hyun, Sung-Su (Research Institute of Health & Environment, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province) ;
  • Song, Sang-Taek (Research Institute of Health & Environment, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province) ;
  • Lee, Min-Gyu (Department of Chemical Engineering, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Kam, Sang-Kyu (Department of Environmental Engineering, Jeju National University)
  • 김세라 (제주특별자치도 보건환경연구원) ;
  • 현성수 (제주특별자치도 보건환경연구원) ;
  • 송상택 (제주특별자치도 보건환경연구원) ;
  • 이민규 (부경대학교 화학공학과) ;
  • 감상규 (제주대학교 환경공학과)
  • Received : 2014.10.25
  • Accepted : 2015.01.07
  • Published : 2015.02.27
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Abstract

For 63 soil series distributed in Jeju Island, natural uncultivated soils in each soil series were collected, and their physicochemical properties and their concentrations of 19 heavy metals including 8 heavy metals which are regulated by Korean Soil Environment Conservation Law, were analyzed. Moreover, the correlations between physicochemical properties and heavy metal concentrations, and between heavy metal concentrations were analyzed. The heavy metals distributed in the higher concentrations and the lower concentrations with arithmetric mean value, were Mn(730 mg/kg) and Ba(493 mg/kg), and Hg(0.146 mg/kg) and Tl(0.096 mg/kg), respectively. The correlations between pH($H_2O$) and heavy metals(Hg, Ni, Co, Se), between pH(NaF) and heavy metals(Hg, Ba, Se, Tl), and between organic matter content and heavy metals(Hg, Tl) were significant at the 0.01 level. From the correlations between heavy metal concentrations, there were 22 where there were significant at the 0.01 level and they showed positive correlation. Among those, the heavy metals showing the correlation higher than r=0.5, were Sb-V(0.878), Mo-Sn(0.867), Co-V(0.654), Co-Sb(0.648), Be-Sn(0.546), and Sn-Tl(0.528).

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