Source apportionment of potentially toxic elements in soils using APCS/MLR, PMF and geostatistics in a typical industrial and mining city in Eastern China

• Cao Jianfei,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation College of Geography and Environment, Shandong Normal University, Ji'nan, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9395-0317

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• Li Chunfang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Li Chunfang, Zhang Lixia

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation College of Geography and Environment, Shandong Normal University, Ji'nan, China

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• Zhang Lixia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Li Chunfang, Zhang Lixia

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation General Station of Geological Environment Monitoring of Shandong province, Ji'nan, China

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• Wu Quanyuan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  * E-mail: wqy6420582@163.com

  Affiliation College of Geography and Environment, Shandong Normal University, Ji'nan, China

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• Lv Jianshu

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Geography and Environment, Shandong Normal University, Ji'nan, China

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