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Geoscience ›› 2012, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (5): 947-952.

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Evaluation on Soil Environmental Quality in the Hetao Area of Inner Mongolia

 BAO  Feng-Qin-1,2, LI  You-Guo-1, LI  Jing-2, HAO  Xiao-Lin-2, MA  Zhi-Chao-2, DIAO  Li-Juan-2   

  1. 1 College of Applied Nuclear Technology and Automation Engineering, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, Sichuan610059, China;
    2 Institute of Regional Geological Survey of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Huhhot, Inner Mongolia010020, China
  • Received:2012-05-03 Revised:2012-08-07 Online:2012-10-19 Published:2012-10-23

Abstract:

Soil pollution is an important factor which inhibits agricultural sustainable development. Soil environmental quality is related to geological conditions, natural conditions and human activities.This paper mainly used the surface soil geochemical data from multi purpose regional geochemical investigation and grading standards of As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb and Zn with reference to  the Soil Environment Quality Standard  (GB15618-1995), then classified and evaluated the single element environmental quality of soil in the Hetao area of Inner Mongolia. Based on classifying single element environmental quality and grading the worst level in the unit of soil environmental quality method we evaluated the soil comprehensive environmental quality in the study area.Using single element evaluation and comprehensive evaluation,it can be concluded that the total situation of the soil environmental quality is good in the study area, and that the environment is green and harmless in the mostly part of the study area.

Key words: Inner Mongolia, Hetao area, soil environmental quality, heavy metal, single element evaluation, comprehensive evaluation