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Hydrocarbon status of soils under atmospheric pollution from a local industrial source

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Contents and compositions of bitumoids, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and free and retained hydrocarbon gases in soils along a transect at different distances from the local industrial source of atmospheric pollution with soot emissions have been studied. The reserves of PAHs progressively decrease when the distance from the source increases. Among the individual PAHs, the most significant decrease is observed for benzo[a]pyrene, tetraphene, pyrene, chrysene, and anthracene. On plowlands, the share of heavy PAHs—benzo[ghi]perylene, benzo[a]pyrene, perylene, etc.—is lower than in the forest soils. In automorphic soils of the park zone adjacent to the industrial zone, the penetration depth of four-, five-, and sixring PAHs from the atmosphere is no more than 25 cm. In soils under natural forest vegetation, heavy PAHs do not penetrate deeper than 5 cm; in tilled soils, their penetration depth coincides with the lower boundary of plow horizons. Analysis of free gases in the soil air revealed hydrocarbons only under forest. From the quantitative and qualitative parameters of the content, reserves, and compositions of different hydrocarbons, the following modification types of hydrocarbon status in the studied soils were revealed: injection, atmosedimentation–injection, atmosedimentation–impact, atmosedimentation–distant, and biogeochemical types.

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    A. N. Gennadiev, A. P. Zhidkin, Yu. I. Pikovskii, R. G. Kovach, T. S. Koshovskii & N. I. Khlynina

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Original Russian Text © A.N. Gennadiev, A.P. Zhidkin, Yu.I. Pikovskii, R.G. Kovach, T.S. Koshovskii, N.I. Khlynina, 2016, published in Pochvovedenie, 2016, No. 9, pp. 1068–1078.

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Gennadiev, A.N., Zhidkin, A.P., Pikovskii, Y.I. et al. Hydrocarbon status of soils under atmospheric pollution from a local industrial source. Eurasian Soil Sc. 49, 1003–1012 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229316090052

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