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Industrial Pollution of Environmental Compartments in the Sinos River Valley, RS, Brazil: Geochemical–Biogeochemical Characterization and Remote Sensing

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Two environmental relief compartments from Sinos Valley, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, interpreted in the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) images, are contaminated, in different ways, by two industrial landfills. One of the landfills is located in a fluvial plain with thin superficial sediments made of expansive clays. In this landfill, metals like Cr, Co, Ni, Cu, Pb, Zn, and Ba, have concentrated more than that of other landfill, which is located on a low hill in a sedimentary arenitic terrain. The metals have also accumulated in plant tissues in the investigated areas. Plants have accumulated more Mn, Zn, Ba, and Cu.

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Acknowledgment

The authors wish to acknowledge the support received from City Hall of Novo Hamburgo Municipality and UTRESA Administration. This work was supported financially by FAPERGS (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Rio Grande do Sul) through the Project Procoredes 2, number 0519234, and CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico). The authors thank Dr Guangyu Yan and an anonymous reviewer for the careful revision and comments on the manuscript.

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  1. Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul—UFRGS, Caixa Postal 15001 Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Marisa Terezinha Garcia de Oliveira & Silvia Beatriz Alves Rolim

  2. Instituto de Química e Geociências-Depto. Bioquímica, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Campus Universitário, s/n°–CP 354-96010-900, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Paulo Celso de Mello-Farias

  3. Departamento de Engenharia dos Materiais, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul—UFRGS, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500-91501970, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Álvaro Meneguzzi

  4. Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul—UERGS, Rua Inconfidentes 395, 93340-140, Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Camila Lutckmeier

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Garcia de Oliveira, M.T., Rolim, S.B.A., de Mello-Farias, P.C. et al. Industrial Pollution of Environmental Compartments in the Sinos River Valley, RS, Brazil: Geochemical–Biogeochemical Characterization and Remote Sensing. Water Air Soil Pollut 192, 183–198 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-008-9645-8

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