Reports 9th ISEG - International Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry - Palestras e Artigos

Plenary Conferences

xxviii - Environmental health impact of legacy uranium mining in Portugal xxx - Geochemical reactivity and risk assessment: from scientific data to policy applications xxxii - Petroleum contamination assessment and Bio-remediation processes xxxiv - Remediation of Municipal Waste Waters By Artificial Wetlands xxxvi - The role of geostatistics in environmental epidemiology xxxviii - Health and earth – the emerging discipline of medical geology xl - Challenges in environmental geochemistry & health: future research priorities? xli - Challenges in environmental geochemistry & health: health and its costs?

Sumary

02 - GEMAS: mapping soil properties and metal con- centrations in agricultural and grazing land soil at the European scale 03 - Characterisation of heavy metal pollution by spent abrasive material in nearby marine sediment by using sediment quality indices and single extractions in Van Phong bay – Vietnam 04 - A lead record from a raised bog north of Hadrians Wall 05 - Sediment and water quality in the River Clyde post- industrial catchment, Glasgow, UK 07 - Tin concentrations in European soils 08 - Sedimentary geochemistry of platinum in intertidal salt marsh sediments of the Tagus River Estuary (Lis- bon, Portugal) 09 - Anthropogenic trace elements in bottom sediments from the Middle and South Adriatic Sea 10 - Temporal evolution of stable lead isotope ratios in sediments of the Central Portuguese Margin: A fin-gerprint of human activities 12 - Sedimentary records of heavy metals in the Ambarli Harbour Area, Istanbul 13 - Sedimentary processes on the NW Iberian continental shelf since the late Little Ice Age 16 - Combustion emissions from a smoldering coal heap in North Lanarkshire, Scotland 17 - Arsenic speciation in waters draining historical Alaskan mine sites 18 - Cu-Ba hydrated uranyl phosphates from the Nisa deposit: chemical and petrographic evidences for mineral reequilibration processes 19 - Pre-mining environmental geochemical survey of a mineralised watershed in North Greece 20 - The swelling floor slab problem in Ireland 22 - Base and precious metals waste material of the S. Domingos and Aljustrel Mines, Portugal: potential economic benefit and improvement environmental quality 23 - Environmental assessment using Zn-Cd-Pb isotopes at an abandoned old mining area 25 - Ranking and testing of contamination risk assessment methods for toxic elements from mine waste sites 27 - Assessment of Panasqueira mine surrounding soils through a contamination factor 29 - Environmental assessment in the abandoned Hg mine site of La Campa del Trave (Asturias, Spain) 31 - Geological component of the environment and breast cancer, Slovak Republic 33 - Release of critical elements from biomass combus- tion 34 - Bioaccessibility options for detailed quantitative risk assessment of metals 36 - Environmental availability of heavy metals in ashes from Popocatépetl volcano during its current eruption 37 - Reconstructing the life-time lead exposure in children using dentine in deciduous teeth 38 - Establishing soil and agricultural variability in studies of micronutrient deficiency in maternal health: case study from rural Malawi 39 - Oral bioaccessibility of inorganic and organic con- taminants: interpretation of results from a range of contaminated sites and the role of mineralogy 40 - The solid phase distribution and bioaccessibility of potentially harmful elements in natural ironstone soils in the UK 41 - Low rank coal aquifers and kidney disease: evidence from Portugal, the Balkans, and the US 42 - Geochemical reactivity and availability of lead in urban soils: from data to improved soil policy 43 - Environmental applications of urban soil quality data in Glasgow, Scotland, UK 45 - Lead concentrations in urban house dust from Portugal 46 - Heavy metal pollution in Mine-Soil-Plant System in S.Francisco de Assis-Panasqueira mine (Portugal) 48 - Geochemistry, structure, bioaccessibility and health effects of inhalable metal and carbonaceous particles in cast iron foundries 50 - Tellus Border: regional geochemical surveys of the northern region of Ireland 52 - The (missing) link between the contaminated soil management strategy and food safety in Portugal 53 - Application of isotope ratio tracing to source residential lead exposure in children in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada 54 - Assessment of exposure to chemical elements through the consumption of waters and vegetables for a group of patients in routine dialysis 55 - Diatom community development during an indoor maturation experiment using some Portuguese clayey material 57 - Trace element deficiencies in the Azores archipelago: an animal and human health issue 59 - Influence of soil chemistry on the uptake of iodine by grass 60 - Human exposure to fluoride in Derbyshire, UK 61 - Transfer of potential harmful elements from soils to foodstuff used in human and animal diet in the sourroundings of the Estarreja Chemical Complex: a preliminary study 62 - Assessing human health risk and exposure through dust ingestion in the Bassin Minier de Provence, Fra nce 63 - Human oral bioaccessibility of Zn, As and Pb in street dusts of Estarreja, Portugal 66 - Metal bioavailability and phytotoxicity study on Vicia faba L. grown on natural and spiked contaminated soils 67 - Characterization of indoor dust from Minas Gerais, Brazil, and evaluation of the cytotoxicity in A549 lung cells 68 - Effects of the different grape rootstocks on the arsenic, cadmium, cobalt and lead concentrations of the grape musts 69 - SSH gene expression profile of Eisenia andrei exposed in situ to a naturally contaminated soil from an abandoned uranium mine 70 - Indoor air quality at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro 72 - Metal(loid)s quantification in different biological matrices and genotoxic effects in human populations exposed to mining contamination Panasqueira Mine (Portugal) 75 - Nanocomposite devices for water treatment and land remediation 76 - High vs. low enthalpies geothermal resources: environmental issues 78 - Urban geochemistry of lead in gardens, playgrounds and schoolyards of Lisbon, Portugal: a review 80 - A study of natural iron precipitates as adsorbents for copper and nickel 81 - Optimised investigation of radioactively contaminated land 83 - Radioactive fallout in Portugal following the Fuku- shima nuclear accident 84 - Hg uptake by crop plants grown on contaminated soil from a petrochemical plant. Effects of combined treatments of plant hormone and thioligand 85 - Bioenergetic use of heavy metal polluted soils a non-phytoremediation approach 86 - Chemistry of ground water and surface water under development of potash salt deposit (Urals, Russia) 88 - Sediment contamination mapping for dredging management in Sepetiba Bay, Brazil 89 - Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soils and street dust from Lisbon urban area 91 - The mechanistic view of Cu(II) adsorption and desorption kinetics on illite surfaces: to which 2:1 clay surfaces metals adsorb? 93 - Urban particulate matter reduction by four green roof species 94 - Spatial distribution of explosive compounds in the vadose zone of a contaminated site, Portugal 96 - Contribution of the plant/rhizosediment system to the phytoremediation of metals 98 - The trace element geochemistry of soils in Bloemfontein, South Africa 99 - Assessing the effect of urbanisation on diffuse pollution in English soils 101 - Leaching from pyritic waste slags under alternating flow conditions: Control of primary and secondary mineral dynamics on the reactive transport of arsenic and heavy metals in a carbonate-buffered aquifer 102 - Migration of Cu and Pb along the soil columns from e-waste contaminated soil 103 - 30 Years Soil Screening Values in Europe: where have we got to? 104 - Study of the spatial distribution of toxic elements in an industrial area (Ajka, Hungar y) based on at- tic dust sampling 105 - Reconstructing historical lead levels using urban dendrochemistr y in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada: species selection, sampling and comparison 107 - Mimmicing field conditions of pyritic mines in the laborator y: chronic toxicity of Fe and SO42- and acute toxicity of Cu and Zn to fluvial periphyton in acidic and alkaline conditions 108 - Risk assessment of abandoned mine sites in Na- mibia 109 - Environmental metal pollution in Ria de Aveiro, a coastal lagoon of N Portugal and benthic fo- raminifera answers 111 - Removal of methylene blue and orange II from dye solutions by natural Portuguese clayey ma- terials 112 - Particulate atmospheric pollution around an alu- mina factor y, Gardanne, SE France 114 - Groundwater degradation by different saliniza- tion processes: three case studies on the applica- tion of environmental isotopes to assess seawater intrusion vs. dissolution of salt minerals in coastal areas 115 - Is it possible to remove polymeric nanoparticles from aqueous paints during the activated sludge treatment? 117 - Metal contamination recorded in the sediment of the semi-closed Bakar Bay (Croatia) 118 - Sediment integrative assessment at the Alqueva reser voir : a chemical and ecotoxicological appro ach 119 - Mapping of the water quality in the Amazon for the selection of treatment technologies in riparian communities 120 - Hydrochemical evaluation of surface waters of the Cértima River basin (Portugal) 122 - The effects of abandoned and active coal mines near Küçükdoğanca region (Keşan-Edirne) on en- vironment 123 - Riverine organic matter characterization using sterols as biomarkers in two Brazilian small wa- tershead, Macacu and Caceribu rivers, RJ, Brazil 124 - Chemical characterization of rainwater from a sugar cane site of São Paulo State, Brazil 125 - Trace metals in surface sediments of the shelf and upper slope between the Tagus River mouth and Cape Sines (Portugal) 126 - Nutrient pollution round Yangtze Estuar y in Spring and Autumn 127 - Arsenic load input to Caudal River (northwestern Spain) from abandoned mercur y mining works 128 - Using stable isotopes in organisms to trace sew- age-derived material in the Adriatic Sea 130 - Heavy metals removal from water with functional- ised silica sorbents 133 - Biogeochemical cycling of uranium series radionuclides in the NE Atlantic Ocean 134 - Effect of competitive ions on radiocaesium reten- tion in clay mineral phases from raña deposits (NE Portugal) 136 - PAH bioaccumulation and typology in marine sponges potential for biomonitoring oil and combustion residues 137 - Natural radioactivity level of the Kestanbol Pluton (Ezine- Çanakkale) and its environmental impor- tance, Turkey 138 - Origin, reser voirs and fate control of natural ura- nium in northern Bavaria, Germany 140 - Characterization of selenium behaviour in ground- water of the Chalk aquifer in Northern France: ori- gin and fate 141 - Environmental Geochemistr y of the lake sedi- ments in vicinity of the Athabasca Oil Sands op- erations in Alberta, Canada 142 - Chemical interactions between plants and soil metals in acidic and alkaline conditions 143 - Speciation of arsenic in tobaccos from reference materials and cigarettes using HPLC-ICP-MS 145 - Environmental geochemistr y of nanoparticles: an- alytical determination and extraction 147 - Assessing improved methods for the removal of polar organic contaminants from water 149 - Miniaturisation of a sequential extraction method for the fractionation of potentially toxic elements in urban particulates 150 - How in situ heterogeneity affects the uncertainty of measurements of contaminant concentra- tion 152 - A study of metals in sediments of the Forth and Clyde Canal, Scotland, UK 153 - Lipid composition and stable isotope determina- tion of particulate and sedimentar y organic mat- ter in Lake Bled (NW Slovenia) 154 - Iron speciation in volcanic soils from Fogo island (Cape Verde) 155 - Environmental and analytical aspects of monitor- ing and reduction of mercur y emission from coal combustion in Polish energy sector 157 - Stable isotope labelling a way for ward for en- hanced detection in monitoring exposure to na- noparticles 159 - Limitations of acidity testing in acid mine drain- age prediction 160 - Release of arsenic by organic acids from damped sediments originally deposited in the Shinaki Dam receiving neutralized sulfate-rich acidic river wa- ter (Yukawa river), Gunma, central Japan 161 - Elemental and stable isotope study of sedimen- tar y organic matter in the continental shelf off the Guadiana River (SW Iberian Peninsula) 163 - The GEMAS project: results from the comparison of aqua regia and xrf analysis 165 - Can the reactive pool of potentially toxic elements in urban soils give an indication of human expo- sure? 167 - Batch and flow-through continuous stirred reac- tor experiments of Sr2+-adsorption onto smectite: Influence of pH, concentration and ionic str ength 168 - Improving the reliability of water analyses: Beyond QA/QC 169 - Waste glass as a substrate for arsenic removal from drinking waters in Bangladesh: a laborator y and field-based study 170 - Application of Fluoride Ion-Selective Electrode (FISE) and GIS in managing human health risk of high-F- groundwater to a rural population in cen- tral Vietnam 173 - Soil geochemistr y of the Mediterannean agricultural karst catchment (Vrana Lake, Croatia) 174 - Geochemical fingerprint on sediments of the rivers draining Ibadan Metropolis, Southwest- ern 176 - Urban sediments: geochemistr y and mineralogy towards improved risk assessments 178 - Dublin SURGE Project Soil Urban Geochemistr y study for Dublin 180 - Geochemical spatial variability in Carrasqueira marsh (Sado estuar y Portugal) 182 - The Geochemical Soil Atlas of the Netherlands: a tool for environmental management and ecologi- cal risk assessment 184 - Asthma and climate change: results from second phase of research exploring the role of social dep- rivation and its influence on Asthma in the UK us- ing GIS 186 - Regulator y decision-making for the purpose of managing land contamination 188 - The ICPE face to environmental issues. From in- dustrialo-environmental risk perception to its representation in a vulnerable environment: the case of coastal industrial areas in France 190 - Geochemical and mineralogical characterization of fill materials from a negative archaeological structure, and relations with luminescence and dosimetric behavior 191 - Concentrations of trace elements in superficial lake sediments before and after metalliferous tail- ings dam failure (Republic of Macedonia) 192 - Evidence of anthropogenic contamination by chromium preser ved in estuarine sediments, Ja- boatão River, Pernambuco, Brazil 193 - Isotopic, elemental and molecular composition of Lago Coari, AM ,Brazil 194 - The geochemistr y of land use change during the Late Holocene in the Istrian-littoral River Basin, Croatia 195 - Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental changes in eastern Adriatic coastal karst lakes 196 - Metal geochemistr y in sediment core from the SW Portuguese continental shelf 197 - St. Lawrence Valley trace metal deposition histor y from peat bog records 198 - Estimation of sedimentation rate and sediment origin by natural radionuclides and 137Cs in the Vrana Lake, Croatia 200 - Anomalies of Cd, Pb and Zn in the São Francisco River Basin, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil 202 - Environmental impact on surface water, stream sediments and macrophytes from a mining area: the case study of the Água Forte and Roxo streams at the Aljustrel mine (Portugal) 204 - Large spill of mining wastes in Portelo stream: Im- pact on water quality and on macroinvertebrate assemblage 205 - Assisted phytoremediation: results from a field experiment at a site affected by mining activities (Iberian Pyrite Belt Portugal) 207 - Long-term effects of contamination from mining accidents on the contents of Zn, Cu, Pb and Cd in a floodplain soil of the river Tisza (Hungar y) 209 - Rhenium in waste material of the sulphur factor y from the S. Domingos abandoned mine (Iberian Pyrite Belt, southern Portugal): an X-ray absorp- tion spectroscopy approach 211 - Secondar y minerals formed in Acid Mine Drain- age environment: the case of Libiola mine: char- acterization and stability 213 - Distribution of K, Th and U in aplite and dolerite veins, granite and schist from the Sobral Pichorro area (Fornos de Algodres, Central Portugal) 214 - The impact of geological environment on health status of residents of the Slovak Republic 216 - Multielemental anomalies of anthropogenic sources in the Rio das Velhas Basin, Minas Gerais State, Brazil 217 - Mapping of low density of the lead levels in drain- age sediments at Pernambuco State, northeastern Brazil 218 - Mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of Makirina Bay surficial sediments (Central Adri- atic) 219 - Patagonian native plant extract can protect cells from arsenic toxicity 220 - Geochemical mapping of low density with focus on levels of mercur y in sediments of drainage in the Pernambuco state, Brazil 221 - Annual radiation dose in Serra do Carambeí granite, Southern Brazil 222 - Evaluation of selenium treatment of maize and sunflower plants in nutrient solution and soil (rh izobox) 223 - Analyses of element contents and microbiologi- cal parameters of wheat- and pea-sprouts treated by molybdenum and selenium 224 - Long term monitoring of indoor radon in the multistor y building 225 - As and Hg assessment of cattle exposure in pas- ture lands around the Estarreja Chemical Com- plex (Aveiro, Portugal). Preliminar y results near the S. Filipe sewage outlet 226 - Definition of areas of probable risk to human health posed by As, Cd and Pb in soils of the sur- rounding area of an abandoned Pintor mine (Por- tugal) 227 - Trace element impurities in commercially avail- able clays used as cosmetic products 229 - Radionuclide activities in groundwater from Mes- ozoic sedimentar y rocks of Central Portugal a preliminar y dose assessment 231 - Biogenic carbonate sands from Atlantic islands of the Macaronesia archipelago: Differentiation based on mineralogical and geochemical data 232 - How mineralogy and geochemistr y could ex- plain some practices of the so-called folk medi- cine 233 - Environmental pollution and human health: ex- ploring adverse pregnancy outcomes and food and water consumption in Estarreja municipality, Portugal 236 - Acute toxicity test of mercuric chloride on black fish 237 - Determination of toxic trace elements in the blue crab Carcinus maena exposed to inorganic mercur y, methylmercur y and selenium using ICP-MS 238 - Potential toxicity caused by heavy metals existing in muds and peloids to be used in mud therapy and peloid therapy 240 - Distribution of uranium and other trace elements in an aplite dyke from Fornos de Algodres area (Northern Central Portugal) 241 - Influence of plant growth promoting bacteria in Helianthus annuus (sunflower) grown in Zn and Cd contaminated soils – effects on biomass pro- duction, growth parameters and metal accumula- tion 242 - Degradability of chelating agents in a soil contaminated with lead 243 - Heavy metal distribution in minesoils and accumulation in plants growing in a Pb/Zn-mining area in NW Spain 244 - Assessing total and bioavailable contents of lin- dane and other hexaclorocyclohexanes in pollut- ed soils 245 - Trace metals concentrations, distribution and bio- availability in urban soils of Abeokuta and its en- virons, South-western Nigeria 247 - Cs-137 Geochemical partitioning in highly weath- ered tropical soils 248 - Distribution of heavy metals in superficial soils in the Upper Manzanares River Watershed, Sucre state, Venezuela 249 - Arsenic in water and sediments of Aveiro Ria – a monitorization programme 250 - Tree leaves used as indicators of dispersion of particulate atmospheric pollution 251 - Nanoparticles in products from fossil fuel com- bustion 252 - Application of zeolite synthesized from fly ash for the removal of Mn from aqueous solution 253 - Chemical evaluation of the leaching solutions from sulfide and gossan mine wastes in envi- ronmental remediation processes with different treatments 255 - Spatial distribution of Pb, Cd and Cr concentra- tions in moss transplants from urban recreational areas in Lisbon, Portugal 256 - Adsorption of heavy metals onto natural Greek bentonite in single and multi component sys- tems 257 - Concentrations of Cu and Zn in tropical soil amended with sewage sludge 258 - Phosphorus recoveries from membrane concen- trate by an electrokinetic process 259 - Phosphorus recover y from sewage sludge by anelectrokinetic process 260 - Derivation of soil screening levels (SSLs) for ura- nium 261 - Small scale sedimentar y metal variation: a tran- sect investigation 262 - Removal of metal ions from spiked aqueous solu- tions using a sorbent produced by slag and red mud 263 - Urban agriculture in Portugal: reactivity of poten- tially toxic elements 265 - The phytotoxicity of Er vedosa mine soils 267 - Is uranium in organic agricultural residues a con- tributor for uranium soil contamination? A study case near a portuguese uranium mine 268 - Molecular and colloidal dynamics in acid mine wa- ters 269 - Biochar as an innovative material for mercur y treatment 271 - Transfer of heavy metals between the regulat- ed and inactive riverbed of the Przemsza River (southern Poland) 272 - Distribution of mercur y and methylmercur y concentrations in surface and core sediments and waters in the Pontevedra Ria (NW Iberian Peninsula) 273 - BDE-209 Kinetics of photodegradation in ethanol and water ; influence of humic substances 275 - Carbon, sulfur and biopolymers distribution sediments from the Guadiana and Aradi Rivers South Iberian Peninsula 276 - Quality assessment and social impact of water from two Mozambican rivers for human con- sumption and irrigation 278 - Evaluation of the water quality through coliform bacteria in the Juturnaíba dam, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 279 - Arsenic in Argentinian aquatic organisms in an ecologic context 280 - Stable isotopes composition of river water across peninsular Spain 281 - Study of water reser voirs at different hydrologi- cal and climatic systems in Spain based on a map of isotopic distribution in precipitacion 283 - Organic matter partitioning and geochemical characteristics related to sources and processes in two Brazilian Southeast estuaries 285 - Characterization of the variability of heavy metals in a mixed land use catchment in NW Spain 286 - Hydrological and geochemical control of metals in a rural catchment (NW Spain) 287 - Nitrogen losses from a low-intensity agricultural catchment in Galicia (NW Spain): annual and sea- sonal trend 288 - Nitrogen dynamics in a mixed land use catchment integrating measurement and modelling 289 - Storage of metals in active stream sediments from mountainous rivers: a case study in the River Douro basin (North Portugal) 290 - Effects of a wildfire on soil and water chemistr y of the Marão watershed, NE Portugal 292 - The Rappbode Reser voir Obser vator y: monitoring nutrients and organic carbon across a whole eco- system 293 - Evaluation of nitrogen and oxygen isotopes as in- dicators of nitrate contamination sources in the Monforte- Alter do Chão Aquifer 295 - Sediment-groundwater interaction in a coastal aquifer affected by salinization (Ravenna, Italy) 296 - Hydrological characteristics of the Timok River, Eastern Serbia 297 - Forest fire effects in soil nutrients mobilization 298 - Heavy metal distribution in estuarine sediments of Koronia lake, Central Macedonia, Northern Gre ece 300 - Wildfire effects on soil organic carbon and losses in a burnt forest area, north-central Portugal 301 - Nitrate contamination of a shallow sandy aquifer in the agricultural catchment. Example of human impact on the natural environment in Western Po- land 304 - Environmental distribution and cycling of radio- nuclides from legacy uranium mine wastes in the Sortelha valley, near Sabugal, Portugal 305 - Enrichment and chemical forms of arsenic in the sediment cores of the Daliao River System in Chi- na 306 - Preliminar y studies for assessment of heteroge- neity of lead in soil and its implications for uptake by plants 308 - Photodegration of thiram in aqueous solutions in the presence and absence of humic substances kinetics studies 309 - Multielemental analysis in plants after Puyehue Volcano eruption 310 - The metals toxicology on freshwater fish tissues 311 - The relationship between heavy metals and sedi- mentar y organic matter in the Oxford Clay (Juras- sic) of the southern UK 312 - Biogeochemistr y of sulfide minerals oxidation at low temperatures 313 - An over view about coal mining as an environ- mental source of polycyclic aromatic hydrocar- bons 315 - Antimony oxidation and adsorption reactions on synthetic manganite 316 - Accumulation and translocation of Al, Ag, Ba, Be, Bi, Cd and Sr in Cistus Salvifolius l. from Caveira, Chança and São Domingos mine areas 317 - Histor y of radionuclides accumulation in the Port of Rijeka sediments (Croatia) 318 - Microbiological evidences of methanotrophic ac- tivity in the soils of the geothermal area of Pantel- leria island (Italy) 319 - Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in arsenic-contaminated areas in Brazil 320 - Geochemical characterization of trace elements and stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in wa- ter, sediment and water moss Fontinalis antipy- retica 321 - Heavy metals (Co, Cr, Cu and Ni) distribution in soils and in natural aromatic and medicinal plants (NAMP) of Vinhais- Bragança massif (NE of Portugal): a preliminar y study 322 - Heavy metals and trace element accumulation and distribution in the organs of Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. eh Steud. 1841, Tisza River, Serbia 323 - Kinetics of Cr(VI) reduction in mangrove sediment, Vavouto Bay, New Caledonia 324 - Environmental implication of geogenic soil contamination by chromium and nickel of Eastern Slovakian Flysh Belt 325 - Phosphorus retention in an Hg-contaminated salt marsh: implications on ecosystem ser vices 326 - The response of microorganisms to climate and anthropogenic induced geochemical changes in oil sands tailings ponds and natural ecosystems surrounding Fort McMurray Alberta, Canada 328 - Seasonal variation of Phragmites australis response to copper(II) exposure, in terms of ALMWOAs exudation 331 - Assessment of PAHs availability in soils using chemical methods 332 - REE in topsoils and rocks from Santiago island (Cape Verde) 334 - Spacial distribution and speciation of heavy metals in surface sediments from the Yangtze Estuar y in China 335 - Isotopic analysis of uranium using high resolution ICP-OES 336 - Anthropogenic contamination of lead in soil and water as a result of the production of automotive batteries in the city of Belo Jardim, Pernambuco Brazil 337 - Organic matter sources and Soot-Black carbon contribution in sediments from the Guadiana estuar y (SW Iberian Peninsula) 339 - Characterisation of the organic composition of size segregated atmospheric particulate matter at traffic exposed in summer and winter in Madrid 341 - Characterization of biogenic volatile emission of rice in a Portuguese paddy field by comprehensive two dimensional gas chromatography 343 - Deployment of method for analysis of δ13C(n-alkanes C1-C5) in gas samples at low concentrations 344 - Manganese separations in superficial environments from Galicia (NW Spain) 346 - Sources and depositional patterns of sedimentar y organic matter in the Mira Estuar y (SW Portugal) 348 - Radiogenic elements in soils from Fogo island (Cape Verde) 350 - Studying the effects on soil organic matter of wildfires in central Portugal 351 - Characterization and differentiation of kaolins by inverse gas chromatography 352 - Metal transfer from the abandoned mining district to the endoreic plain of Touiref (NW Tunisia):solid-phase distribution and availability of metals 354 - A Geochemical Modeling approach in Lardosa region (Castelo Branco, Portugal): an environmental management tool 355 - The Geochemical Soil Atlas of the Netherlands: a tool for environmental management and ecological risk assessment 357 - Analysis of the Zn, Cu and Pb relative contents in soils and sediments and their use to identify contamination 359 - Geochemical behaviour of trace metals in soils in the Suape industrial-harbour complex, Pernambuco, Brazil 360 - Heavy metal contamination in urban road dusts in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece: mineralogical and morphological characteristics and mobility of potentially toxic metals 362 - Spatial distribution approach to evaluate soil contamination in the surrounding area of Panasqueira mine 364 - Risk perception of a population living near a chemical complex in Estarreja, Portugal