SB-Staden

The sampling site SB-Staden is located in a floodplain between the Saar and the city of Saarbrücken.

It represents a sectional area of the river system of the Saar and the industrial town Saarbrücken in the south of the Saarland conurbation. The sampling site is located in the district St. Johann directly at the river Saar and is used as a park area for more than 100 years. The soil type is a Vega  (German soil classification KA 4) of fluvial sediments.

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Specimen

• Soil

  Soil is livelihood and biosphere for humans, animals, plants and soil organisms. All the substances brought in are transported, transformed and/or accumulated in the soil.

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Analytes

• Metals

  Eighty percent of all elements on earth are metals

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• Nonmetals

  Only eighteen elements in the periodic table

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• Chlorohydrocarbons

  Group of organic compounds with at least one covalently bonded chlorine atom

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• DDT and metabolites

  Toxic and persistent organochloropesticide

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• Hexachlorocyclohexane

  Several isomeric compounds among the group of chlorinated hydrocarbons

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• Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

  Group of organic compounds with at least three condensed six-membered rings

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• Per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds

  Organic compounds which are fully (per-) or partially (poly-) fluorinated

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• Supplementary parameters

  Additional information for the interpretation of contamination data

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Sampling period

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Literature

• Bodenprofilaufnahme und Charakterisierung der Bodenprobenahmeflächen der Umweltprobenbank des Bundes
  Lämmerhirt, Merle; Weinfurtner, Karlheinz
  Schmallenberg: Fraunhofer-Institut für Molekularbiologie und Angewandte Oekologie, 2004. - 90; FKZ: 301 02 006, 2004