Discrimination between sediment and soil samples for forensic purposes using elemental data: An investigation of particle size effects

Kenneth Pye; Simon J. Blott; Samantha J. Witton; Debra J. Croft

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2006.06.005

Discrimination between sediment and soil samples for forensic purposes using elemental data: An investigation of particle size effects

Kenneth Pye, Simon J. Blott, Samantha J. Witton, Debra J. Croft

Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

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This paper reports the results of an investigation to quantify variations in elemental concentrations amongst different particle size fractions obtained from a suite of sediment samples collected from the River Avon, UK. Concentrations of 49 elements determined by inductively coupled plasma spectrometry (ICP-AES and ICP-MS) were compared using conventional and multivariate statistical methods in order to assess compositional differences between different size fractions and between different samples. The results showed significant differences between different size fractions and the bulk sediments, but indicated that all of the size fractions considered (

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	30-42
Number of pages	13
Journal	Forensic Science International
Volume	167
Issue number	1
Early online date	13 Jul 2006
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2006.06.005
Publication status	Published - 22 Mar 2007

Keywords

ICP
Forensic
Chemistry
analysis
elemental composition
sediments

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