Heavy Metalls in Soils of the Technogenesis Zone
The contents of several elements in soils of the technogenesis zone were found to be significantly higher than those in uncontaminated soils. The distribution of most elements in these soils had a right-sided asymmetry. In the control soils, symmetric variational series were predominant. A high degree of conjugacy was observed between the contents of Sc, V, Mn, Co, Cu, Zn, Y, Ag and Yb and those of other elements; no conjugacy was found for Be, Ni, Ga, Nb, Mo, Sn, Ba, W, and Pb. It was proposed to use the established features of the variational series for the detection of anthropogenic pressure, and the degree of conjugacy for the quantitative estimation of the contents of elements from those of the marker element