Heavy metals transport to groundwater relies on the characteristics of soil, such as carbonate and clay minerals, organic matter content, soil pH, some other factors. Most heavy in calcareous soils are precipitated metal minerals; consequently, their is not anticipated. Therefore, current study focused impacts calcium presence adsorption lead (Pb) copper (Cu) using batch column experiments. To ...

Soil organic matter (OM) is a source of fertility for food provisioning and means climate mitigation. A high pedodiversity observed over very short distances due to both past present land use, such as in Western Africa (Northern Togo), makes this crucial issue. In particular, some small spots covered by sacred forests (forêts sacrées) cultural value area are extremely biodiverse, calcareous OM ...

[1] It is commonly believed that fine-textured soils developed on carbonate parent material are well buffered from possible acidification. There are no data, however, that document resistance of such soils to acidic deposition exposure on a timescale longer than 30–40 years. In this paper, we report on directly testing the long-term buffering capacity of nineteenth century forest soils develope...

The sorption of Ni(II) on a calcareous aridisol (CA) soil, one of the major soil types in northwestern China, was investigated using batch and extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) approaches in a 0.01 mol/L NaClO4 solution at different pH values (6.0-10.0), temperatures (25-60 °C) and contact times (2-15 days). Under alkaline conditions, EXAFS analysis showed that the interatomic di...

The minimum concentration of cadmium (Cd), by Chinese cabbage grown on Cd contaminated soils that can initiate toxicity in human liver cells using in vitro digestion coupled with Caco-2/HL-7702 cell models was studied. Cadmium bioaccessibility in the gastric phase for yellow soil (YS) cabbage (40.84%) and calcareous soil (CS) cabbage (21.54%) was significantly higher than small intestinal phase...

A field experiment was conducted to study the impact of Sulphur(S) and Phosphorus (P) on yield, nutrient status of soil and their contents in pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) during the year 2008-2009. Seven treatments were studied in Factorial Randomized Block Design with three replications. The treatment combinations were derived from three levels of sulphur (0, 20 and 40 kg S ha(-1)) and four level...