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Geoscience ›› 2019, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (01): 161-168.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2019.01.15

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Distribution of Selenium and Its Influencing Factors in Soils of Puning City, Guangdong Province

JIANG Huihao1,2(), LUO Jie1, CAI Limei1,2,3(), MU Guizhen1,2, TANG Cuihua1, WANG Qiushuang1, WANG Shuo1, SUN Rongrong1   

  1. 1. College of Resources and Environment, Yangtze University, Wuhan,Hubei 430100, China
    2. Key Laboratory of Mineralogy and Metallogeny, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou,Guangdong 510640, China
    3. State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou,Guangdong 510640, China
  • Received:2018-04-18 Revised:2018-09-24 Online:2019-02-26 Published:2019-02-28
  • Contact: CAI Limei

Abstract:

A systematic investigation of soil selenium in the region of Puning City was carried out, and 413 samples of surface soil (0-20 cm) and 103 samples of deep soil (>150 cm) were collected systematically and analyzed for content, distribution and influencing factors of soil Se. Results showed that the content of total selenium in the surface soils ranged from 0.16 mg/kg to 2.01 mg/kg with a mean value of 0.63 mg/kg, which meant that the soils were in the category of Se sufficiency or Se abundance on the whole, with none in the category of Se deficiency or excessive Se. Among the different types of soils, total Se content was the highest in red soil formed by sand shale, averaging 0.86 mg/kg,and the lowest in paddy soils developed in delta sediments, averaging 0.41 mg/kg. Among the different types of parent materials, the highest content was recorded in Jurassic shale with an average Se content of 0.89 mg/kg, while the lowest in Quaternary sediment with an average of 0.41 mg/kg. Correlation and regression analysis showed that soil Se content was significantly and positively related to contents of iron and aluminum, soil total organic carbon (SOC), but negatively to soil pH. Soil parent material was the major factor influencing selenium concentration and distribution in the soil of Puning City, whereas land use, soil pH, SOC, iron and aluminum also played important roles.

Key words: Puning City, soil total selenium, distribution characteristic, influencing factor

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