“…The geochemical mapping provides a more detailed information about the spatial variability of chemical components for environmental studies, particularly in discriminating potential sources of contribution (either anthropogenic and geogenic) in global, continent and regional scale (Albanese et al, 2007;Darnley and Garrett, 1990;Darnley et al, 1995;Gałuszka, 2007;Plant et al, 2001;Qu et al, 2018Qu et al, , 2019Caritat, 2017, 2005;Yuan et al, 2013;Sahoo et al, 2019aSahoo et al, , 2019bSahoo et al, , 2020Salomão et al, 2019). The presences of mineral resources (such as copper, lead, zinc, mercury, gold, silver) and carbonate and basalt parent materials often lead to elevated PTMs in soil (Barsby et al, 2012;Cabral Pinto et al, 2017;Cheng, 2016;Cox et al, 2017;Goldhaber et al, 2009;Tolosana-Delgado and McKinley, 2016;Wang et al, 2015;Zhang et al, 2002).…”