This paper addresses the construction of the soil landslide risk charts of the urban area of the city of Ponte Nova, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. A systematic survey of office and field data was considered to elaborate thematic risk charts (lithostructural, geological-geotechnical, slope and soil use and occupation), which when crossed permitted the cons...
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View ArticleStudies on heavy metal behavior in soil have received considerable attention and have helped to increase the understanding of their mobility and retention in the environment. Given the scarcity of information available in the literature on heavy metal transport parameters in Brazilian tropical soils, the main contribution of this paper is improving the ...
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