Application of Magnetic Susceptibility and Chemical Analysis in Environmental Research of Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 January 2025 | Viewed by 30
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environment science; water quality; geochemistry; water sediments; heavy metal
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: environmental chemistry; heavy metals; waters; sediments; soils; pollution risk assessment
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to publish in our Special Issue, which is devoted to the application of magnetic and chemical methods in environmental research. The method of determining volume susceptibility is a cheap and fast method, and can be used as an indicator of anthropogenic contamination with heavy metals. The application of magnetic measurements could serve as a partial replacement for expensive and complicated chemical analyses in contamination research and monitoring, as a significant correlation exists between the distribution of magnetic particles and the distribution of heavy metals around industrial areas. However, chemical methods are not completely replaceable, so for a serious evaluation, the combination of both is needed; additional insight into the mineral composition of the samples is also often required.
Such investigations could be applied to different media in different environments, e.g., all kinds of aquatic sediments, overbank sediments, and soils. They could also be a very useful tool in archaeological research, in the research of global changes, and in the dating of different samples.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to publish original high-quality research papers and review articles addressing the recent advances in environmental magnetism research, archaeomagnetism research, as well as the research of global changes and the dating of samples, through the use of magnetic methods in combination with chemical and mineralogical analyses. Topics about the development of new methods and their applications in environmental research are also welcome.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Water.
Dr. Stanislav Frančišković-Bilinski
Dr. Sanja Sakan
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- magnetic susceptibility
- environmental magnetism
- archaeomagnetism
- heavy metals
- contamination
- aquatic sediments
- soils
- monitoring
