Source identification and risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in surface soil of townships in the northwest Hebei region

• Zhanbin Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhanbin Wang, Daokun Chen

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Xi’an Mineral Resources Survey, China Geological Survey, Xi’an, China

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• Daokun Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhanbin Wang, Daokun Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cdkun1008@163.com (DKC); lixinbin@mail.cgs.gov.cn (XBL)

  Affiliation Xi’an Mineral Resources Survey, China Geological Survey, Xi’an, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-8285-9561

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• Xinbin Li ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cdkun1008@163.com (DKC); lixinbin@mail.cgs.gov.cn (XBL)

  Affiliations Xi’an Mineral Resources Survey, China Geological Survey, Xi’an, China, State Key Laboratory of Deep Earth Exploration and Imaging, School of Geophysics and Information Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China, Qinling--Loess Plateau Transition Zone Observation and Research Station for Coupling of Soil and Water Elements and Conservation of Biological Resources, Tongguan, China

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• Ke Yang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliation Xi’an Mineral Resources Survey, China Geological Survey, Xi’an, China

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• Dongxiang Jiang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Xi’an Mineral Resources Survey, China Geological Survey, Xi’an, China

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• Donglin Wang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Xi’an Mineral Resources Survey, China Geological Survey, Xi’an, China

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• Liannan Shang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Xi’an Mineral Resources Survey, China Geological Survey, Xi’an, China

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• Yuekun Wang

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Xi’an Mineral Resources Survey, China Geological Survey, Xi’an, China

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