Major and trace element distribution in soil and sediments from the Egyptian central Nile Valley

Abrahim, 2008, Assessment of heavy metal enrichment factors and the degree of contamination in marine sediments from Tamaki Estuary, Auckland, New Zealand, Environ. Monit. Assess., 136, 227, 10.1007/s10661-007-9678-2 Arafa, 2015, Geochemistry of sediments and surface soils from the Nile Delta and lower Nile valley studied by epithermal neutron activation analysis, J. Afr. Earth Sci., 107, 57, 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2015.04.004 Badawy, 2016, Assessment of industrial contamination of agricultural soil adjacent to Sadat City, Egypt, Ecol. Chem. Eng., 23, 297 Bhatia, 1986, Trace element characteristics of graywackes and tectonic setting discrimination of sedimentary basins, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 92, 181, 10.1007/BF00375292 Butzer, 1958, Contribution to the pleistocene geology of the Nile Valley, Erdkunde, 46 Chen, 2007, Distribution and accumulation of heavy metals in the sediments of Kaohsiung Harbor, Taiwan, Chemosphere, 66, 1431, 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.09.030 Dupré, 1996, Major and trace elements of river-borne material: the Congo Basin, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 60, 1301, 10.1016/0016-7037(96)00043-9 Ergin, 1991, Heavy metal concentrations in surface sediments from the two coastal inlets (Golden Horn Estuary and İzmit Bay) of the northeastern Sea of Marmara, Chem. Geol., 91, 269, 10.1016/0009-2541(91)90004-B Frontasyeva, 2011, Neutron activation analysis in the life sciences, Phys. Part. Nucl., 42, 332, 10.1134/S1063779611020043 GES, 2016 Ghrefat, 2011, Application of geoaccumulation index and enrichment factor for assessing metal contamination in the sediments of Kafrain Dam, Jordan, Environ. Monit. Assess., 178, 95, 10.1007/s10661-010-1675-1 Gromet, 1984, The “North American shale composite”: its compilation, major and trace element characteristics, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 48, 2469, 10.1016/0016-7037(84)90298-9 Hakanson, 1980, An ecological risk index for aquatic pollution control. A sedimentological approach, Water Res., 14, 975, 10.1016/0043-1354(80)90143-8 Hammer, 2001, PAST: paleontological statistics software package for education and data analysis, Palaeontol. Electron., 4, 1 IAEA, 2004 Kabata-Pendias, 2011 McLennan, 1993, Weathering and global denudation, J. Geol., 101, 295 Muller, 1969, Index of geoaccumulation in sediments of the Rhine River, Geol. J., 2, 108 Pavlov, 2014, Automation system for measurement of gamma-ray spectra of induced activity for multi-element high volume neutron activation analysis at the reactor IBR-2 of Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics at the joint institute for nuclear research, Phys. Part. Nucl. Lett., 11, 737, 10.1134/S1547477114060107 Picouet, 2002, Major and trace element geochemistry in the upper Niger river (Mali): physical and chemical weathering rates and CO2 consumption, Chem. Geol., 185, 93, 10.1016/S0009-2541(01)00398-9 Reimann, 2000, Normal and lognormal data distribution in geochemistry: death of a myth. Consequences for the statistical treatment of geochemical and environmental data, Environ. Geol., 39, 1001, 10.1007/s002549900081 Ridgway, 2002, Estuaries as repositories of historical contamination and their impact on shelf seas, Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci., 55, 903, 10.1006/ecss.2002.1035 Rudnick, 2003, 1 Shalash, 1980, The effect of the high Aswan dam on the hydrological regime of the River Nile, 130 Shapiro, 1965, Biometrika trust an analysis of variance test for normality (complete samples), Source Biom. Biom. Trust, 52, 591 Stanley, 1993, Nile Delta: recent geological evolution and human impact, Science, 260, 628, 10.1126/science.260.5108.628 Taylor, 1985 Viers, 2009, Chemical composition of suspended sediments in World Rivers: new insights from a new database, Sci. Total Environ., 407, 853, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.09.053 Wang, 2012, Provenance and tectonic setting of Neoproterozoic sedimentary sequences in the South China Block: evidence from detrital zircon ages and Hf–Nd isotopes, Int. J. Earth Sci., 101, 1723, 10.1007/s00531-011-0746-z