The Application of Environmental Magnetism Techniques for Pollution Assessment in Urban and Suburban Areas in Greece: State of the Art and Case Studies

Abstract

Environmental magnetism is a comparatively new discipline, applied in Greece only

The estimation of an anthropogenic depth boundary using the magnetic susceptibility method in Kogi State, North-Central Nigeria

“…This is because of the existing relationship between magnetic susceptibility and the concentration of heavy metals in the soil (Georgeaud et al 1997, Petrovský & Elwood 1999, Knab et al 2001, Chaparro et al 2006, Kim et al 2007. Magnetic susceptibility has been used in different places to estimate the depth between anthropogenic and lithogenic influenced soil magnetic susceptibility (Dearing et al 1996, Kapička et al 2001, Boyko et al 2004, Magiera et al 2006, Lu & Bai 2008, Sarris et al 2009, Zananiri et al 2010, Jatto et al 2016. The simplicity of applying the magnetic susceptibility method, combined with its rapid results, makes it easier to estimate the thickness of soil affected and enriched by technogenic magnetic particles in a given area.…”

Magnetic susceptibility as a tool for the discrimination of anthropogenic and lithogenic history of topsoils: preliminary results from the broader area of Thessaloniki city.

“…Moreover, magnetic susceptibility mapping was successfully applied in different countries for the estimation of anthropogenic pollution (Strzyszcz, 1993;Dearing et al, 1996;Scholger, 1998;Petrovsky et al, 1998Petrovsky et al, , 2000Kapicka et al, 2001;Lecoanet et al, 2001;Boyko et al, 2004;Jordanova et al, 2004;Lu and Bai, 2006;Magiera et al, 2006). Despite this big development especially in Europe, in Greece only few studies have been performed during the last decades (Scoullos et al, 1979, Sarris et al, 2009, Zananiri et al, 2010.…”