caa a22 4500 477094228 CHVBK 20180405111523.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01757213 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01757213 Lead content of plants and soils from three abandoned smelter areas in and near Socorro, New Mexico [Elektronische Daten] [Lynn Brandvold, Barbara Popp, Sandra Swartz] Two primary lead smelters and one secondary lead smelter have been active in the Socorro, New Mexico (USA) area in the last 110 years: the Billing smelter from 1883 to 1894, the Cuba Road smelter from 1881 to 1900, and Cal West from 1979 to 1984. Samples of plants and surface soil under each plant from all three sites were analysed for lead. The plants consisted of sparse grasses, cacti, creosote bush, snakeweed, mesquite and fourwing saltbush. Lead levels in the plants increased (2-440 μg g−1) as the lead in the alkaline soils (25-10000 ng g−1) increased. However, the BAC (biological absorption coefficient), which is the ratio of lead content in the plant to the lead content in the soil, a measure of relative accumulation, decreased by one to two orders of magnitude, except for grasses and snakeweed. At background lead levels, there was little difference between lead in rootsversus foliage. At high lead levels, there was higher lead in roots versus foliage at the Billing and Cuba Road sites. The reverse was noted at Cal West. Because this is a recent operation, the higher lead in foliage may be due to foliar uptake. Plant growth at all sites appeared healthy. Chapman & Hall, 1996 Lead nationallicence plants nationallicence soils nationallicence lead smelters nationallicence lead contamination nationallicence Brandvold Lynn New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, 87801, Socorro, New Mexico, USA aut Popp Barbara New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, 87801, Socorro, New Mexico, USA aut Swartz Sandra New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, 87801, Socorro, New Mexico, USA aut Environmental Geochemistry and Health Kluwer Academic Publishers 18/1(1996-03-01), 1-4 0269-4042 18:1<1 1996 18 10653 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01757213 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01757213 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brandvold Lynn New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, 87801, Socorro, New Mexico, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Popp Barbara New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, 87801, Socorro, New Mexico, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Swartz Sandra New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, 87801, Socorro, New Mexico, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Geochemistry and Health Kluwer Academic Publishers 18/1(1996-03-01), 1-4 0269-4042 18:1<1 1996 18 10653 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer